1 ADAM-SMITH, P. Heart of Exile: Ireland, 1848, and the seven patriots banished; their adventures, loneliness and loves in three continents as they search for refuge. (Melbourne: Nelson, (1986). Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. In illust. dustjacket (slightly rubbed). (xiv, 370pp.). With title-vign., num. b/w plates of which some full-page, text-illusts., maps, and facs. 1st ed. $50
2 ADAMSON, Joy. Forever Free: Elsa’s Pride. London: Collins & Harvill Press, 1962. Roy. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth (corners bumped). (192pp.). With col. frontisp., num. full-page col. and b/w plates, several double-page b/w plates, a full-page map, and endpaper maps. Signed by the author. Some light foxing to endpapers. Assoc. ephemera loosely inserted. $150
3 ADDISON, C.G. Damascus and Palmyra: A Journey to the East. With a Sketch of the state and prospects of Syria, under Ibrahim Pasha. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 8vo. Orig. full presentation calf (slightly rubbed; spines faded) with gilt borders on all covers. Spines with raised bands and morocco titling-labels. Marbled endpapers with matching edges. Complete with 10 full-page hand-coloured plates. Contemp. inscription on front fly-leaves. A fine set. 1st edition. NOTE: Relates to Malta, Athens, and Greece, Scio and the massacre, Smyrna, Constantinople, Beirout, Damascus, Palmyra, etc. $1,500
4 ALLEN, (Arthur). Kokoda Comamander: A Life of Major- General ‘Tubby’ Allen. By S. Braga. Melbourne: O.U.P., (2004). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xviii, 374pp.). With num. full-page b/w plates, text-illusts., and maps of which some full-page. First edition. Fine. $60
5 (ANON). Practical Recipes for Practical People! Compiled by the Ladies of the Kitchen Stall. Ye Olde Englyshe Fayre, West Maitland (N.S.W.), October, 1905. West Maitland: T. Dimmock, (1905). Sm. 8vo. Orig. ribbed brown cloth with black-lettered title to front cover and advert. on rear cover. (192pp.). With num. contemp. interesting adverts. Previous owner’s name on title, otherwise fine and complete. NOTE: A scarce early cookery book imprinted in the Hunter River district of N.S.W. $250
6 (ANON). Pre-Adamite Man; or, The Story of our Old Planet & its Inhabitants, told by Scripture & Science. ... London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1860. 8vo. Orig. cloth (covers worn). (xiv, 320, 8pp.). With 4 full-page coloured plates (The Earth, The Moon, Jupiter & Venus), 4 full-page b/w plates, and title-vignette. Slightly foxed. 1st edition. Title-page printed in red/black ink. Uncut. $125
7 BACK, Capt. (G.). Narrative of an Expedition in H.M.S. Terror, undertaken with a view to Geographical Discovery on the Arctic Shores, in the Years 1836-7. London: John Murray, 1838. 8vo. Orig. full presentation calf. Gilt borders on both front & rear boards. Spine extra gilt, with raised bands, and morocco titling-label (slightly rubbed). Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers and matching edges. (viii, 456pp.). With a folding chart of Hudson’s Strait and the North coast of Southampton Island, as well as 12 full-page lithograph plates. Presentation inscription to Percival Maurice Shipton on his leaving Eton College, Christmas 1844. Slight foxing, but nonetheless a fine tight copy, handsomely bound. 1st edition. $2,000
8 BAILEY, H.W. (Compl. by). Dictionary of Khotan Saka. Cambridge U.P., (1979). 4to. Orig. full red buckram. Dustjacket. (xviii, 560pp.). 1st edition. Fine crisp copy. NOTE: Professor Bailey’s important dictionary was 44 years in the making, being the extinct Iranian languages spoken in Xin jiang, China, known as Khotanese and Tumshugese languages, and used in the early Buddhist texts. $400
9 BAKER, R.T. and H.G. SMITH. A Research on the Eucalypts, especially in regard to their Essential Oils. 2nd ed. Sydney 1920. Folio. Orig. cloth. Gilt. (xvi, 472pp.). With frontispiece, 120 plates of which 51 col., and text-illusts. (Techn. Educ. Ser. No.24, Tech. Mus. N.S.W.) Fine copy. $300
1 10 BANKS, J. (Ed. by J.C. Beaglehole). The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, 1768-1771. 2 vols. (Sydney): Angus and Robertson, (1962). Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spines gilt. In illust. dustjackets (slightly chipped). With col. frontispieces, 100 full-page plates of which 14 are col., text-illusts., 1 double-page map, and 8 sketch maps. 1st edition. NOTE: Sir Joseph Banks was one of the greatest figures in Georgian England, perhaps best known for his distinguished role as naturalist on the Endeavour voyage with Captain Cook. $300
11 BARBOT, J. Barbot on Guinea: The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712. Edited by Paul Hair. 2 vols. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1992. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjackets. Frontisps., and num. b/w illusts. Fine set. (Hakluyt Society Second Series, Volumes 175 & 176). $75
12 BARKER, Thomas. Barker’s Delight: or, The Art of Angling. Wherein are discovered many rare secrets very necessary to be known by all that delight in that Recreation, both for catching the Fish, and dressing thereof. Second Edition much enlarged. ... London: Printed by J.G. for Richard Marrist, 1657 (but J. H. Burn’s reprint of 1820 of which 100 copies only were printed). 12mo. Orig. full old calf (rebacked preserving the orig. spine strip). (2, iv, xii, 40pp.). Fine copy complete with the two facsimile titles by different publishers. W. & S., pp.21. $400
13 (BARROW, John). A Description of Pitcairn’s Island and its Inhabitants. With an authentic account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the subsequent fortunes of the Mutineers. New York: Printed and Published by J. & J. Harper, 1833. 12mo. Orig. printed drab cloth boards (rebacked with spine paper titling-label). (304pp.). With 2 engrv. full-page captioned plates, and VIpp of publisher’s adverts at beginning of text. Issued as Harper’s Stereotype Edition - Harper’s Family Library No. XXXI. First American Edition, not recorded by Ferguson. Hill pp.17. Rare. $500
14 BARTH, F. Ritual and Knowledge among the Baktaman of New Guinea. New Haven, Yale U.P. 1975. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (292pp.). With 16 full-page plates, and text-figs. $65
15 BEAN, C.E.W. Gallipoli to the Somme: The story of C.E.W. Bean. (By) D. McCarthy. Sydney: John Ferguson, (1983). Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. In illust. dustjacket. (400pp.). With col. portrait, 2 double and 28 full-page b/w plates, and 8 maps. 1st edition. Previous owner’s inscription on endpaper. NOTE: Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (1879-1968) was Australia’s official correspondent at the First World War and subsequently its official historian, writing 6 of the 12 volumes of the Official History of Australia in the 1914-1918 War himself, covering the Gallipoli campaign and the Australian Imperial Force on the Western Front 1916-1918. $100
16 BEETON, (Isabella Mary). Beeton’s Every-Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book. A practical and useful guide for all Mistresses and Servants. ... Containing new and valuable recipes, including instructions for foreign and vegetarian cookery. ... London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt. (lxxxii, 570pp.). With 8 full-page coloured chromo-lithograph plates of which 1 is folded, 26 full-page b/w plates, numerous text-illusts., and contemp. adverts. One or two slight defects at end of text, otherwise fine. $350
17 BELL, J. The Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles, & Joints. By John Bell, Surgeon. Edinburgh: Printed for G. Mudie, ( Sept. 1793). Royal 8vo. Later qtr. calf over marbled paper boards. (xiv, v-xxxii, 460pp.). With engrv. title-page, and errata leaf at pp. xxxi/xxxii. First pages of text discoloured, otherwise a complete copy of the First Edition in which the Advertisement Page states that the author is about to publish a volume of plates to accompany this work (obviously his 1794 work entitled ‘Engravings Explaining the Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles, & Joints’) that both the text as here offered, and the plates are made apart so that no one may be obliged to buy both books when perhaps only one is needed’ and ‘that
2 every reader will perceive with one glance, that they are quite independent of each other; indeed the book is written, as it was first conceived, not needing the plates ...’. NOTE: It is interesting to note that the 1st edition, as here offered, is not in the British Museum Catalogue, nor have we been able to find a sale record of a copy coming to market. $1,500
18 BENNETT, Joseph. Billiards. Ed. by “Cavendish”. ... London: Thos. de La Rue, 1899. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt. (10, xii, 476, 12pp.). With frontisp., plates, diagrams, text-illusts., and adverts. at end. $200
19 BENNETT, Kit. Paddle Steamers of the Murray River. (South Melbourne): Lothian Books, (2004). 4to. Orig. illust. boards. In illust. dustjacket. (xiv, 162pp.). With half-title vign., frontisp., num. full-page and double-page col. photographic plates, col. and b/w text-illusts., and a double-page map. First edition. Fine. $45
20 BEROSUS (Giovanni Nanni). Berosi Sacerdotis Chaldaici, Antiquitatum Italiae ac Totius Orbis libri quinque, Commentariis Ioannis Annii Viterbensis, Theologiae professoris illustrati, adiecto nunc primum Indice locupletissimo, & reliquis eius argumenti authoribus, quorum nomina sequenti pagella vis derelicet. Aeditio ultima, caeteris longe castigatior. Antwerp: Ioan. Steelsii, 1552. Thick sm. 8vo. Orig. vellum binding with yapp edges, rubbed and age-darkened, and with ink title on front cover. Remains of ink title on spine, and spine bands exposed. (48, 748, 40, 2pp.) With title-vign., and decorative initials. Errata page at end. Pages crisp, slightly age-darkened, damp-stained on lower edge of some pages, and a small insect hole through lower part of all pages, neither of which affect the text. Pencil notation on ffep; pencil and ink notations on rear pastedown, and ink title on top edge. NOTE: There is some controversy about the authenticity of Annius’ text; contemporary critics of Annius protested that all or part of his text, which he asserted was a translation of Berosus’ original, was a clever forgery by Annius himself. Interestingly, Berosus’ writing was also challenged, as he never produced the original manuscripts which he claimed to have used as his source texts. Berosus was a Chaldean priest who lived in the time of Alexander the Great and his immediate successors. He translated the history of his native country, Babylonia, into the Greek language, and dedicated the work to one of the Greek kings of Syria named Antiochus. His work is principally known through the fragments of Polyhistor and Apollodorus, two writers in the 1st century before the Christian era, who are quoted by Eusebius and Lyncellus. $600
21 BEST, Thomas. A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling, Confirmed by actual Experience; Interspersed with several new and recent discoveries; the whole forming A Complete Museum for the lovers of that pleasing and rational Recreation. ... 6th edition ... Lond: For B. Crosby and Co., 1804. Sm. 8vo. Later full panelled calf with gilt title to spine. (192pp.). With engrv. frontispiece. Early inked name on prelims, otherwise fine and complete. $125
22 BEST, Thomas. A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling. Confirmed by actual Experience, and Minute Observations, ... With the proper Methods for Breeding and Feeding Fish, and of making Fish-ponds, stews, &c. ... To which is added, The Compleat Fly-Fisher. ... Lond: Printed for C. Stalker, 1787. Sm. 8vo. Calf-backed orig. marbled paper boards. Spine gilt titled and with raised bands. (xii, 112, 4pp.). With fine copper-engrv. frontispiece by Wooding which includes examples of various flies. First Edition, complete with half-title page. Early name on half-title, otherwise a fine copy of this rare treatise. W.&S., p.31. NOTE: The author was Keeper of His Majesty’s Drawing-room in the Tower of London. $2,500
23 BIBLIOTHECA BUDDHICA. 30 vols in 32 (complete and all published). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, (1992). 8vo. Orig. qtr cloth. Fine. A complete compilation of all the classic Buddhist texts, invaluable for the study of Buddhism. $1,000
3 24 BLAINEY, G. Mines in the Spinifex: The Story of Mount Isa Mines. (Sydney): Angus and Robertson, (1962). 8vo. Orig. cloth. In illust. dustjacket (slightly chipped). (vi, 242pp. text). With col. frontispiece, 1 double-page and 21 full-page b/w plates at the end of the text, and endpaper maps. $40
25 BLYTON, Enid. The Mystery of the Missing Man. Being the Thirteenth Adventure of the Five Find-Outers and Dog. Lond: Methuen, (1956). Sm. 8vo. Orig. cloth. In slightly chipped dustjacket (unclipped). (viii, 182, 2pp.). With full-page illusts. by Lilian Buchanan. 1st edition. Previous owner’s inscription on front fly-leaf, otherwise fine. $75
26 BLYTON, Enid. Five have Plenty of Fun. Lond: Hodder & Stoughton, (1955). Sm. 8vo. Orig. cloth. In chipped dustjacket. (184pp.). With num. illusts. some of which are tinted, and illust. endpapers. 1st edition. Pp. 159/160 tape-repaired without loss of text. Previous owner’s name on half-title page. $65
27 BONNEY, H. Pioneer Airwoman: The Story of Mrs. (Harry) Bonney. By T. Gwynn-Jones. (Adelaide 1979). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (180pp.). With 14 full-page plates, map, and endpaper map. Signed on dedication page ‘Lores Bonney’. $65
28 BOWCKER, Charles. The Art of Angling, containing directions for Fly-Fishing, Trolling, Bottom Fishing, Making Artificial Flies, &c. ... Ludlow: Printed and Sold by Richard Jones, 1839. Sm. 8vo. Half calf over marbled paper boards, Spine gilt with raised bands and morocco titling-labels. T.e.g. other edges uncut. ((8, III-VIII, 9-154pp.). With col. frontispiece depicting examples of 30 flies, and num. text-illusts. throughout. Some marginal pencil markings, otherwise a fine attractively bound copy. Westwood and Satchell pp.37/38. $250
29 BOWCKER, Richard. The Art of Angling Improved, in all its parts, Especially Fly-Fishing: Containing A particular Account of the several Sorts of Fresh-Water Fish, with their most proper Baits. Also the Names, Colours, and Seasons of all the most Useful Flies. With Directions for making each Fly Artificially in the most Exact manner, &c. ... Worcester: Printed by M. Olivers, (1746). 12mo. Orig. full old panelled calf. Spine wearing (but sound) with raised bands and red morocco titling label. (iv, 96pp.). With printer’s ornaments at beginning and end of text. The very scarce First Edition, which Westwood & Satchell, pp. 39-40, states that only in the 1st edition of this work is Richard Bowcker’s name cited on the title-page, whilst in the second printing his son Charles lays claim to the work. The work ran to many editions; the first, as here offered, is seldom seen. $5,000
30 BOWMAN, Anne. The Kangaroo Hunters; or, Adventures in the Bush. ... London: G. Routledge & Co. ... 1859. Sm. thick 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt (rubbed & marked). (iv, 444pp.). With frontispiece, and 7 plates engrv. by Dalziel after Harrison Weir. 1st ed. Muir 855. $150
31 BOXER, C.R. (Ed. by). South China in the Sixteenth Century. Being the narratives of Galeote Pereira, Fr. Gaspar Da Cruz, O.P., Fr. Martin De Rada, O.E.S.A., (1550-1575). London: Hakluyt Society, 1953. 8vo. Orig. gilt-dec. cloth. (xcii, 388pp.). With frontispiece, 11 full-page plates, and 8 maps of which 3 fold. (Hakluyt Society, Ser.2: No.106). Slight foxing. Uncut. $95
32 BOXER, C.R. (Transl. and ed. by). Further Selections from The Tragic History of the Sea, 1559-1565. Narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Aguia and Garca (1559), Sao Paulo (1561) and the misadventures of the Brazil-ship Santo Antonio (1565). Transl. from the Portuguese. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1968. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt. Dustjacket. (x, 170pp.). With portrait , 2 full-page plates, 1 full-page map, 3 fold. maps, full-page facs., and text-illusts. (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser. No. CXXXII). $50
4 33 BREEDEN, S. Visions of a Rainforest. A Year in Australia’s Tropical Rainforest. (Sydney 1992). 4to. Original cloth. Dustjacket. (x, 198pp.). Profusely illustrated in colour by William T. Cooper. 1st edition. Fine. NOTE: A personal and evocative account of life in one of the richest, most complex habitats on Earth, a far north Queensland tropical rainforest. $60
34 BRERETON, F.S. (Capt.). With French at the Front. A Story of the Great European War down to the Battle of the Aisne. London: Blackie and Son Limited, (1914). 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. (viii, 292pp.). With frontisp., and 6 full-page plates by A. Webb. Contemp. owner’s inscription on front fly-leaf. Some minor foxing. $60
35 BRERETON, F.S. (Lt.-Col.) One of the Fighting Scouts. A Tale of Guerrilla Warfare in South Africa. London: Blackie and Son, n.d. (c. 1905). 8vo. Orig. illust cloth. (352pp.). With frontisp., 7 full-page illusts., and 1 map. $50
36 BRERETON, F.S. (Lt.-Col.) The Armoured-car Scouts. A Tale of the Campaigns in the Caucasus. London: Blackie & Son, n.d. (c. 1925). 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. (384pp.). Illustrated by A. Webb with a frontispiece, 5 full-page plates, and a map. $50
37 BRISTOW, J. A Narrative of the Sufferings of James Bristow, belonging to the Bengal Artilley, during Ten Years Captivity with Hyder Ally and Tippoo Saheb. ... Calcutta printed: London, re-printed for J. Murray, 1794. 8vo. Later calf rebacked over marbled paper boards. Spine titled. (vi, 210pp.). Name on title-page, otherwise fine. $500
38 BRITAIN AND THE CHINA TRADE 1635-1842. Selected and with a new introduction by P. Tuck. 10 vols complete. London: Routledge, (2000). 8vo. Uniformly bound in orig. full red cloth with gilt titles to front covers & spines. Fine set. COLLATION: Vols I-V The Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China, 1635-1834; Vol. VI The Crucial Years of Early Anglo-Chinese Relations, 1750-1800; Vol. VII The Instructions of the East India Company to Lord Macartney on His Embassy to China and His Reports to the Company, 1792-4; Vol. VIII An Embassy to China: Lord Macartney’s Journal, 1793-1794; Vol. IX British Trade and the Opening of China 1800-42 ... ; Vol. X Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences During the British Embassy to Pekin in 1816. $1,500
39 BROADBENT, J. India, China, Australia: Trade and Society 1788-1850. (Sydney): Historic Houses Trust of NSW, (2002). 4to. Orig. cloth. In illust. dustjacket. (208pp.). Profusely illust. in col. with portrait, full- page plates, double-page plates, text-illusts., a map, and dec. endpapers. Lim. ed. Fine. NOTE: Explores the trade and social links between India, China and Australia. It surveys the legacy of furniture, silver, ceramics, textiles, costume, fancy goods and curiosities unearthed in museums and private collections within Australia. $125
40 BROKEN HILL PROPRIETARY CO. LTD. Fifty Years of Industry and Enterprise: 1885-1935. (Melbourne) 1935. 4to. Orig. wrapper (spine extremities chipped). (168pp.). With title-vign., and numerous illusts, many of which are full-page plates. The Jubilee Number of the B.H.P. Review. $125
41 BRONTE, C. Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters. An Illustrated Edition in 7 vols (complete and all published). London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1872-1882. 8vo. Orig. half crimson morocco over marbled paper boards with matching endpapers. Spines uniformly gilt panelled and with raised bands. Illustrated with engrv. frontispieces, additional engrv. title-page each with a fine vignette, and numerous full-page engrv. plates. A fine handsomely bound contemp. set. CONTENTS Vol I: Jane Eyre; Vol. II: Shirley; Vol. III: Villette; Vol. IV: The Professor, ... with Poems; Vol. V: Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey; Vol. VI: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Vol. VII: The Life of Charlotte Bronte, by Mrs. Gaskell. $2,250 5 42 BRONTE, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 2 vols. Haworth Edition. Philadelphia: Robert M. Lindsay, 1884. Roy. 8vo. Later full calf. Spines gilt and with raised bands. With 2 etched frontispieces each with a protective tissue-guard, 2 etched title-vignettes, and illustrated chapter initials. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies printed on extra laid paper. Uncut. Fine, handsomely bound. The ideal gift. $2,000
43 (BROOKES, R.) The Art of Angling, Rock and Sea-Fishing: With the Natural History of River, Pond, and Sea-Fish. Illustrated with 133 cutts. Lond: John Watts, 1740. 12mo. Contemp. full mottled calf with contrasting morocco titling-label to spine. (xvi, 249, 11pp.). With engrv. title-vign., and num. woodcut text-illusts. Title-page printed in red/black ink. Text age-toned, especially so at beginning and end. 1st edition. Westwood and Satchell p. 42. $600
44 BROWNE, E.G. A Literary History of Persia. 4 vols. (Vol. 1: From the Earliest Times until Firdawsi; Vol. 2: From Firdawsi to Sad’i; Vol. 3: The Tartar Dominion (1265-1502); Vol. 4: Modern Times (1500-1924). (New Delhi): Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1997. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spines gilt. Dustjackets. With frontisps., and b/w plates. Text in English and Arabic. Fine. NOTE: Passionate about the people and literature of Persia, Browne has been described as ‘more like a Persian than an Englishman; he was warm-hearted; he understood Persia and loved her’. $125
45 BUDDONG SOCIETY, The: The Buddong Flows On. A Family History of the Bridle and Wilkinson Families. 2 vols (Vol. I: The Old Hands; Vol. II: Genuine People). Collated and Edited by Margaret Francis, Stella Vernon and Colin Wilkinson. ... Wagga Wagga (1993-2003). 4to. Orig. illust. boards. Profusely illustrated. Vol. I inscribed and signed by Margaret Francis, one of the editors. Fine. $60
46 BUDGE, E.A.W. Cook’s Handbook for Egypt and the Egyptian Sudan. With chapters on Egyptian Archaeology. ... London: Thos. Cook & Son, 1921. Thick 12mo. Orig. limp brown cloth with gilt title on front cover & spine. (xx, 956pp.). With 9 fold. maps one of which is in rear end-pocket, and numerous text-illusts. Fine and complete. $100
47 CALLINAN, B.J. Independent Company. The 2/2 and 2/4 Australian Independent Companies in Portuguese Timor 1941-1943. ... Melbourne: William Heinemann, (1953). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xxxiv, 236pp.). With frontispiece, 24 full-page plates, 6 maps, and endpaper maps. 1st ed. Fine. $275
48 CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: 3 Titles bound together in one volume. (1) W.G. Searle - Ingulf and the Historia Croylandensis. An Investigation attempted; (2) M.R. James - On the Abbey at S. Edmund at Bury ...; and (3) R. Sinker - Biographical Notes on the Librarians of Trinity College on Sir Edward Stanhope’s Foundation. Cambridge 1894-1897. Royal 8vo. Orig. hf. morocco over pebbled cloth. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. With fold. frontispiece, and folding plan. Fine. $100
49 CAMDEN, William. Britannia: Or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent; from the Earliest Antiquity. Translated from the Edition published by the Author in MDCVII. Enlarged by the Latest Discoveries by Richard Gough (1806). ... Four vols. Hildesheim: George Olms, 1974. (Reprint of London 1806 edition). Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt. With portrait, num. engraved maps and plates of which many are fold., and text engravings. Most of the text is printed in double-column. (Anglistica and Americana. A Series of Reprints Selected by B. Fabian, E. Mertner, K. Schneider and M. Spevack). Near fine. $325
50 CAMPBELL, I.C. ‘Gone Native’ in Polynesia: Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific.
6 Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, (1998). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt. (xii, 170pp.). With map, and full-page illusts. (Contributions to the Study of World History, No. 63). Fine. $125
51 CAMPBELL, R. Merchant Campbell 1769-1846. A Study of Colonial Trade. By M. Steven. Melbourne: O.U.P., 1965. 8vo. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. (xvi, 360pp.). With portr., 8 full-page plates, and a full-page map. 1st edition. Assoc. inscription on front fly-leaf. Fine. $45
52 CANO (or CANUS), Melchior. (Bishop of Canary Islands). Opera, In hac primum editione clarius divisa ... A P Hyacintho Serry. Padua, Typis Seminarii, 1734. 4to, pp. (46), 596, (28), title in red and black with woodcut vignette, bound in contemporary yapped vellum with black inked title to spine, biographical ms notes on endpaper. A very good clean tight copy, FIRST EDITION THUS, as edited by Serry, of the collected works of the Spanish Dominican and theologian Melchior Cani (1509-60), author of De Locis Theologocos (1563), and founder of Humanistically inspired modern fundamental theology, based on sources and expressed in literary language. With bookplate and light stamps of Oblatorium S Caroli, Bays water. $450
53 CARADOC of LHANCARVAN. The History of Wales. ... Englished by Dr. Powell, and augmented by W. Wynne. To which is added, A Description of Wales, by Sir John Price. ... London: Printed for T. Evans, 1774. 8vo. Contemp. full calf (spine rubbed but sound). (42, xlii, 396, 16pp.). With folding table. Title-page printed in red/black ink, and with a fine engrv. vignette. Scarce. $275
54 CARROLL, W. The Angler’s Vade Mecum, containing A Descriptive Account of the Water Flies, their Seasons, and the Kind of Weather that brings them most of the Water. ... To which is added, A Description of the different Baits used in Angling, and where found. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable, 1818. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. half calf (slightly rubbed) over marbled paper boards. (vi, 128pp.). With hand-coloured frontispiece (soiled), and 11 full-page hand-coloured engrv. plates depicting some 194 examples of flies. Inner hinge of title-page as well as the prelims have been strengthened; some minor foxing, otherwise a good copy of the 1st edition bound without half-title. W.&S, p.50. $750
55 CAWTHORNE, W.A. The Kangaroo Islanders: A Story of South Australia before Colonization 1823. Adelaide: Rigby, (1926). Small 8vo. Orig. illust. limp cloth. (viii, 122, 2pp.). With a title vign., and 1 illustration. Publisher’s compliment slip inserted. $100
56 CAYLEY, N.W. Australian Parrots: Their Habits in the Field and Aviary. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1938. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt (dulled). (xxviii, 332pp.). With 27 full-page plates by Cayley, 11 of which are col., b/w photographic plates, text-illusts., and maps. 1st ed. Complete and scarce. Previous owner’s rubber stamp on endpaper, and some light foxing. $75
57 CHEESMAN, R.E. (Major). In Unknown Arabia. With a foreword by Maj.-Gen. Sir Percy Z. Cox. London: Macmillan, 1926. Royal 8vo. Orig. full buckram with gilt vignette on upper cover (lower spine torn). Top edge gilt. (xx, 448pp.). With frontispiece, 66 illusts., and 3 maps of which 1 is fold. 1st ed. A good copy. $400
58 (CHETHAM, James). The Angler’s Vade Mecum: Or, A Compendious, yet full, Discourse of Angling: Discovering the aptest Methods and Ways, exactest Rules, properest Baits, and choicest Experiments for the catching all manner of fresh Water Fish. ... The Third Edition, Illustrated with Sculptures; And very much Enlarged. Lond: Printed for William Battersby, 1700. 12mo. Contemp. half calf over marbled paper boards. Raised spine bands. (viii, 326, 10pp.). With 2 full-page copper- engraved plates depicting 12 species of fish. Early inked name on title-page (non-disturbing), otherwise fine and complete. W.&S., pp.59-60. $1,000
7 59 (CHETHAM, James). The Angler’s Vade Mecum: Or, A Compendious, yet full, Discourse of Angling: Discovering the aptest Methods and Ways, exactest Rules, properest Baits, and choicest Experiments for the catching all manner of fresh-water Fish: ... By a Lover of Angling. ... Lond: Printed for Tho. Bassett, 1681. 12mo. Orig. full old calf (corners rubbed; spine skilfully rebacked). (viii, 180 mis-paged “166”, 4pp.). Early inked name on title-page; text age-toned; otherwise a good complete copy of the very rare First Edition of this scarce work, published anonymously. W.& S. pp.59/60. $5,500
60 CHINNERY, G. George Chinnery, 1774-1852 : Artist of India and the China Coast. By Patrick Conner. (Suffolk): Antique Collectors’ Club, (1993). 4to. Orig. cloth. Gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (320pp.). With col. frontisp., col. title-vign., num. col. and b/w plates of which many full-page, and text-illusts. 1st edition. Fine. NOTE: A detailed study of British artist George Chinnery, and his contribution to the early topographic history of Hong Kong. $150
61 CHURCH OF ENGLAND: A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances and Constitutions Ecclesiastical; With other Publick Records of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Times of K. Edward VI, Q. Elizabeth, K. James, & K. Charles I. Published to Vindicate the Church of England, ... London: Printed for Robert Cutler and Joseph Clarke, 1671. BOUND IN WITH: Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical, Treated upon by the Archbishops of Canterbury & York, ... London: Printed by Robert Barker, 1640. Sm. thick 4to. Full calf with blind lines on covers. Spine with raised bands and titling-label. (xii, 2, 262, ii, 38pp.). With 2 folding printed broadsheets, and an engrv. frontispiece depicting the seals of Armes of the Bishops. $600
62 CHURCHILL, Winston S. (By R.S. Churchill and Martin Gilbert). Winston S. Churchill, 1874-1965. Vols I-VIII, all published and complete. 8 vols. London: Heinemann, (1966-1988). Thick Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spines gilt. Dustjackets (Vols. 1, 3, 4 & 5 price-clipped). With portraits, num. full-page b/w plates, maps, and 2 fold. genealogical tables. The official Churchill biography. Collation: Vol. I: Youth 1874-1900; Vol. II: Young Statesman 1901-1914; Vol. III: 1914-1916; Vol. IV: 1916-1922; Vol. V: 1922-1939; Vol. VI: Finest Hour 1939-1941; Vol. VII: Road to Victory 1941-1945; Vol. VIII: Never Despair 1945-1965. All volumes are 1st English editions. Previous owner’s bookplate in Vols. 2, 3 & 4; browning to endpapers of some volumes. Assoc. ephemera loosely inserted. $500
63 CHURCHILL, Winston S. The World Crisis. 5 vols. (Vol. I: 1911-1914; Vol. II: 1915; Vols. III-IV: 1916-1918; Vol. V: The Aftermath). London and Sydney (1923-1941). Roy. 8vo. Orig. full blue cloth. Spines gilt (some vols. rubbed). Complete with all fold. maps. Slight foxing. NOTE: A further volume entitled “The Eastern Front”, published 1931, forms part of the Series but is not here included. $1,000
64 CHURCHWARD, C.M. Tongan Dictionary. (Tongan - English and English - Tongan). London: O.U.P. 1959. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xiv, 836pp.). Inscription on front fly-leaf. NOTE: The first comprehensive dictionary of the Tongan language, compiled by Dr. Churchward for the Government of Tonga. $250
65 CHURCHWARD, C.M. Tongan Grammar. London 1953. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xiv, 306pp.). Fine. $250
66 COGGER, H.G. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Sydney (1975). Royal thick 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (584pp.). Profusely illust. in colour and b/w, and with maps. 1st ed. The David McPhee copy with his bookplate on prelims. Fine. $200
67 COGHLAN, T.A. & T.T. EWING. The Progress of Australasia in the Nineteenth Century ... Toronto: The Linscott Publishing Company, 1903. 8vo. Orig. cloth (slightly rubbed). Gilt. (xxviii, 468pp.). Uncut.
8 Occasional very light foxing and pencil annots. (The Nineteenth Century Series). $50
68 COGHLAN, T.A. The Wealth and Progress of New South Wales 1894. Eighth Issue. 2 vols. Sydney: Charles Potter, 1895-1896. 8vo. Orig. pebble-grain cloth with gilt crest to each front cover. Spines gilt. With graphs and fold. col. map. Neat old rubber stamps on prelims, otherwise fine. Presentation set from the Agent-General for N.S.W., at Westminster in London. $150
69 COLLINS, D. (By J. Currey). David Collins: A Colonial Life. Melbourne University Press, 2000. Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (xiv, 390, 2pp.). With portrait, 4 full-page col. plates, numerous b/w illusts., a map, and a family tree. 1st ed. Fine. $60
70 COLLINS, D. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales. Edited, with an introduction, and notes, by J. Collier. ... Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, n.d. (c.1910). 8vo. Orig. dec. cloth (rubbed; small tears to spine extremities). Gilt. (xxxii, 450pp.). With frontisp., and 17 full-page b/w plates. Review slip tipped-in. Endpapers and prelims lightly browned. Closed tear to tops of pp. 271/2 and 321/2, affecting text. $50
71 COOK, James (Capt.). Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook. By N. Thomas. (London): Penguin Books, (2003). Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (xxxviii, 468pp.). With double-page maps, text-illusts., and double-page illusts. First edition. Fine. $45
72 COOK, James. The Three Famous Voyages Round the World of the celebrated circumnavigator Captain James Cook, narrating the unparalleled achievements of that great commander in the domain of Scientific Navigation, Survey, and Geographical Exploration in the regions of Australasia, Polynesia, the various groups of the Pacific Ocean, and the American Coast from Tierra del Fuego to the western coasts of North America. London: Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co., n.d. (c. 1880). Thick royal 8vo. Orig. illust. half calf (spine strengthened). Gilt. All edges gilt. (4, xx, 1176pp.). Embellished with col. chromolitho blank presentation page, portrait with accompanying tissue-guard, full-page plates, maps of which some are folding, and wood-engrv. text-illusts. Title-page printed in red/ black ink. Fine. Beddie 189. $650
73 COOK, THOS. & SON: (Cook’s) Traveller’s Handbook for Palestine and Syria. ... Rev. by H. C. Luke. With an Appendix, by Professor J. Garstang. London 1924. Sm. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt titled. (viii, 520pp.). With 10 maps some of which are fold. and one of which is in rear end- pocket, and adverts. at end. $75
74 CORCORAN, J.E. The Target Rifle in Australia, 1860-1900. With Notes on Competitive Shooting and some Rifles and Riflemen of the Time. Sydney: Dolphin Press, (1975). Royal 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (224pp.). With numerous b/w illusts. of which some full-page. Lim. ed., inscribed and signed by the publisher. $100
75 CORNEY, B.G. The Quest and Occupation of Tahiti by Emissaries of Spain during the years 1772-1776. ... 3 vols. London: Hakluyt Society, 1913-1918. 8vo. Original cloth. Gilt. With plates and charts, most of which are fold., and fold. maps in end-pockets. Uncut. Fine copies. (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser. Nos. 32, 36 & 43). $350
76 CROME, E.A. Qantas Aeriana. Edited by N.C. Baldwin. Foreword by A.G.Townley. Sutton Coldfield: Francis J. Field, 1955. 8vo. PRESENTATION ISSUE bound in orig. red cloth with silver title to covers and silver edges. (196pp.). With frontispiece, 4 full-page coloured plates, 56 b/w illusts. of which 4 are maps, and errata-slip loosely inserted. Only 100 copies so issued fully signed by the author, also bearing the autographs of ‘Hudson Fysh’ (founder of Qantas), as well as Reverend ‘J. Fred McKay’ the associate pilot/aviator who worked with John Flynn in the early days 9 of the Flying Doctor Service. A most desirable copy. NOTE: The history of Qantas and Australian airmails. $650
77 CROME, Francis and James SHIELDS. Parrots & Pigeons of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. (Sydney 1992). 4to. Original cloth. Dustjacket. (x, 318pp.). Colour frontispiece. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs. Presentation copy. Fine. NOTE: A major work covering 54 species of parrots and 27 species of pigeons and doves. $225
78 CUMPSTON, J.S. Shipping Arrivals and Departures. Sydney 1788-1825: (Pts. I, II and III in one vol.). Canberra 1977. 4to. Orig. cloth. (viii, 164, 70pp.). With frontisp., plates, and maps. A stencilled work. (Roebuck Society Pub. No. 22). $65
79 CUNNINGHAM, P. Two Years in New South Wales; A Series of Letters, Comprising Sketches of the Actual State of Society in that Colony; ... 2 vols. Adelaide: Libraries Board of SA, 1966. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spines gilt. Fine. (Reprint of London 1827 edition; Australiana Facs. Editions No. 31). $90
80 CUSACK, F. Candles in the Dark: A History of the Bendigo Home and Hospital for the Aged. (Melbourne): Queensberry Hill Press, (1984). 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. In illust. dustjacket. (xvi, 232pp.). With frontisp., illust. title-page, num. b/w plates, facs., and text-illusts. First and lim. ed. Fine. $85
81 CUTCLIFFE, H.C. The Art of Trout Fishing on Rapid Streams: Comprising A Complete System of Fishing the North Devon Streams, and their like; With detailed instructions in the art of fishing with the artificial fly, the natural fly, the fern web, beetle, maggot, worm, and minnow, both natural and artificial. South Molton: W. Tucker, Square, 1863. Sm. 8vo. Later half crushed oasis. Spine gilt titled and with raised bands. (xiv, 208pp.). 1st edition. Fine handsome copy. W.&S., p. 72. $600
82 DANI, A.H, V.M. MASSON, a.o. (Editors). History of Civilizations of Central Asia. 4 vols. (Vol. 1: The dawn of civilization: earliest times to 700 B.C.; Vol. 2: The development of sedentary and nomadic civilizations: 700 B.C. to A.D. 250; Vol. 3: The crossroads of civilizations: A.D. 250 to 750; Vol. 4: The age of achievement: A.D. 750 to the end of the fifteenth century, ... ). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, (1999). Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spines gilt. In illust. dustjackets. With num. b/w plates of which some full-page, text-illusts., full-page and double-page maps, diagrams, plans, and endpaper maps. Near fine. $225
83 DARES PHRYGIUS ET DICTYS CRETENSIS. De Bello et Excidio Trojae, In usum Serenissimi Delphini, cum interpretatione Annae Daceriae. ... Nec non Josephus Iscanus, cum notis Sam. Dresemii. ... Amstelaedami: Georgium Gallet, 1702. Sm. thick 4to. Contemp. full calf (hinges strengthened). Raised spine bands and contrasting morocco titling-label. With both full-page wood-engrv. plates including additional engrv. title-page representing Arion and the Dolphin surmounted by the arms of the Dauphin, and head & tail-piece illusts. Title-page printed in red/black ink. Complete with Index and Erratum leaf at end. Fine. NOTE: This legendary author was the chief source of mediaeval stories of the Trojan War. $650
84 DAWSON, J. Australian Aborigines. The languages and customs of several tribes of Aborigines in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. Melbourne: George Robertson, 1881. (Facsimile ed., Canberra 1981). 4to. Orig. cloth. Gilt. (12, viii, 112, CIVpp.). With 2 portraits, and fold. facs. Fine. $160
85 DE FRERET. Oeuvres Completes. 10 vols. Paris: Dandre, 1796. 12mo. Orig. plain paper wrappers with printed-paper titling labels to spines. Comprising Histoire: Vols 1-6; et, Chronologie de Newton: Vols 7-10. Fine uncut set. $300
10 86 DELANO, A. Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres comprising Three Voyages Round the World. Together with a Voyage of survey and discovery, in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands. New York: Praeger, (1970). 8vo. Orig. cloth. (x, 600pp.). With 2 full-page engrv. portraits, and a double-page map. Facs. reprint of Boston 1817 ed. NOTE: An account by an American of his three voyages to various parts of the Pacific between 1790 and 1807. He called at Van Diemen’s Land and engaged in sealing in Bass Strait ...(F.673). $110
87 DENNYS, John. The Secrets of Angling, 1613. A reprint, with introd. by Th. Westwood. Lond: W. Satchell & Co., 1883. Sm. 4to. Orig. qtr. roan (slightly rubbed). Gilt title along spine. T.e.g. (62pp.). $100
88 D’ENTRECASTEAUX, B. (By F. Horner). Looking for La Perouse. D’Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific 1792-1793. Melbourne U.P., (1996). Roy. 8vo. Orig. illust. limp boards. (xiv, 318pp.). With 2 double-page and 8 full-page b/w plates, 2 diagrams, and 11 maps. 1st paperback edition. Fine. $40
89 D’ENTRECASTEAUX, Bruny. Voyage to Australia & the Pacific 1791-1793. Edited and translated by E. and M. Duyker. Melbourne U.P. at The Miegunyah Press, (2001). Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (xliv, 394pp.). With several full-page b/w plates and maps. First and limited edition. Near fine. $120
90 DERMIGNY, L. La Chine et l’Occident: Le Commerce a Canton au XVIIIe Siecle 1719-1833. 3 vols. Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1964. Royal 8vo. Orig. qtr. red oasis over marbled paper boards. Spines uniformly gilt and with raised bands. A fine set. (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes-Vle Section Centre de Recherches Historiques: Ports-Routes-Trafics XVIII). $350
91 DICKENS, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. 2 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842. 8vo. Orig. full brown embossed cloth with gilt titles to spines (rubbed). An uncut set of the First Edition: First Issue, complete with yellow glazed endpapers, as well as the adverts at the beginning of Vol. I and end of Vol. II. The error in the pagination as noted by Eckel is entirely correct. A good set. NOTE: Not one of Dickens’ books was the subject of so much adverse criticism as the book here offered, written after his return from America in 1842, and limited to only 3,000 copies published. $500
92 DICKENS, Charles. Great Expectations. 3 vols (complete). London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. Sm. 8vo. Uniformly bound in later half calf with gilt titles to spines. First Edition complete with dedication page in Vol. I. Vols. I & II are first printings, whilst Vol. III is the second issue with all three volumes published in 1861. The provenance of this set is interesting as it came from the library of the late Clifford Craig of Launceston, Tasmania, a dedicated Dickens scholar publishing his study into the Van Diemen’s Land edition of The Pickwick Papers in 1973. The set here offered bears the old rubber stamps of the Glamorgan Public Library that flourished at Swansea, V.D.L., in the late 19th century under the enthusiasm of Dr. Storey. Great Expectations is considered to be the rarest of Dickens’ important books (see Eckel, Lond. 1932). $6,500
93 DIXON, G. & J. MEARES. The Dixon-Meares Controversy. Containing, Remarks on the Voyages of John Meares by George Dixon, An Answer to Mr. George Dixon, by John Meares, and Further Remarks on the Voyages of John Meares, by George Dixon. Edited by F. W. Howay. Toronto: The Ryerson Press (1929). Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt. (xiv, 156pp.). With frontisp., title-vign., and 7 charts. (Facs. reprint Amsterdam 1969). (Bibliotheca Australiana Extra Series). Fine. $40
94 DIXON, George (Capt.). A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in The King George and Queen Charlotte, ... Dedicated, by Permission, to Sir Joseph Banks, ... London: Geo. Goulding, 1789. (Repr. Amsterdam/New York 1968). Small 4to. Orig.
11 cloth with blue titling pieces. Gilt. (2, xxxii, 360, 48pp.). With plates and charts many of which are fold. (Bibliotheca Australiana No. 37). Fine. $75
95 DOWNES, S. The New Compleat Angler. Illustrated by M. Knowelden. Foreword by R. Walker. Lond: Orbis Publishing, (1984). 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (176pp.). Profusely illust. in both colour and b/w. Fine. $45
96 DOWNS, I. The New Guinea Volunteer Rifles NGVR, 1939- 1943: A History. ... Including Nominal Roll. Broadbeach Waters, Qld: Pacific Press, (1999). Sm. 4to. Orig. illust. boards. Dustjacket. (360pp.). With 2 col. frontisps., num. full-page b/w plates, text-illusts., facs., maps of which some full-page, and endpaper maps. 1st ed. Fine. NOTE: Story of the courageous civilian volunteers who led the defence of New Guinea in the Pacific War. $100
97 DUFFY, Charles Gavan (Sir). My Life in Two Hemispheres. 2 vols. Second Edition. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. 8vo. Orig. cloth (rubbed). Spines gilt (dulled). With frontisp. portraits, each with its protective tissue-guard. Uncut. Some foxing to endpapers. Both volumes signed on the title-page by Meagher (Thomas Francis), the Irish Nationalist. NOTE: Duffy (1855-1932) was the Irish rebel who arrived in Melbourne at the age of 40 years, was elected to Parliament, and was involved in securing the Federation of the Australian Commonwealth. $150
98 DUNCAN-KEMP, A.M. Our Sandhill Country: Nature and Man in South-Western Queensland. ... Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1934. Sm. 8vo. Orig. cloth (slightly rubbed). (xii, 294pp.). With frontisp., and 8 full-page b/w plates. $80
99 DURKAN, J. and A. ROSS. Early Scottish Libraries. Glasgow: John S Burns & Sons, 1961. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. Dustjacket. (196pp.). With frontisp., and num. full-page b/w plates. Endpapers slightly browned. Assoc. ephemera loosely inserted. $55
100 DYKE, A.L. Dyke’s Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia. ... Silver Anniversary Edition. Chicago 1935. Royal thick 8vo. Orig. cloth. In chipped dustjacket. (xxxvi, 1240, 71, 18pp.). With numerous text-illusts., and fold. charts. Adverts at end. Fine copy. $200
101 EDEN, C.H. India Historical and Descriptive. Revised and Enlarged from ‘Les Voyages Celebres’. With an Account of the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857-8. London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1876. Sm. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt. (290pp.). With coloured chromo-lithog. frontispiece, a fold. map, and numerous illusts. many of which are full-page. $200
102 EDWARDS, H.V. Compl. by. The New South Wales Lawyer. A Handbook of the Every-day Laws of this State, ... Sydney: William Brooks, 1901. 8vo. Orig. cloth (rebacked preserving the orig. spine strip). (320pp.). With Additions & Corrections slip inserted. 1st edition. Besides some marginal pencil annots, a fine complete copy. $150
103 ELKIN, A.P. Aboriginal Men of High Degree. New York: St. Martin’s Press, (1977). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xxiv, 186pp.). With endpaper maps. 2nd ed. Fine. $50
104 EMMERICK, R.E. Saka Grammatical Studies. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. 8vo. Orig. cloth (faded). Spine gilt. Dustjacket. (xviii, 368pp.). (London Oriental Series, Volume 20). Fine $75
105 ERSKINE, J.E. Journal of a Cruise Among the Islands of the Western Pacific, including the Feejees and others inhabited by the Polynesian Negro Races in Her Majesty’s Ship Havannah. London: John Murray, 1853. 8vo. Later half calf over slightly marked cloth boards. Spine with raised bands and morocco titling label. (viii, 488pp.). With a col.
12 lithogr. frontispiece, 6 full-page plates of which 3 are col. lithogrs., and at the end a large fold. map (bearing a clean tear now repaired). Errata-slip opp. p.1. A good complete copy, scarce. $450
106 FABRE, J.H. Fabre’s Book of Insects. Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ translation of Fabre’s “Souvenir Entomologiques” by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. New York: Tudor Publishing Company, (1937). Sm. 4to. Orig. dec. cloth (slightly rubbed; spine extremities frayed). Gilt (spine dulled). (xii, 272pp.). With tipped-in col. frontisp., and 11 tipped-in full-page col. plates by E. J. Detmold, each with its printed tissue-guard. Title-page printed in red and black. Previous owner’s name on endpaper and some light foxing. $75
107 FALKUS, Hugh. The Sea Trout. Lond: H.F. & G. Witherby, (1987). Roy. 8vo. Orig. half blue morocco over cloth boards (small mark on upper cover). Spine gilt titled. T.e.g. In matching slipcase. (ii, 20pp.). Illustrated with wood engravings. Edition limited to 25 numbered copies only fully signed by the author. ADDED: Loosely inserted is an associated letter from the publisher regarding this copy. $150
108 FANNING, E. Voyages Round the World; With Selected Sketches of Voyages to the South Seas, North and South Pacific Oceans, China, etc., ... Also, Information relating to Important Late Discoveries; between the Years 1792 and 1832, ... New York: Collins & Hannay, 1833. (Republished N.J.: The Gregg Press, 1970). 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. (ii, 500pp.). With frontisp., full-page plates, and double-page plates. $75
109 FAULKNER, William. Go Down, Moses. And other Stories. New York: Random House, (1942). 8vo. Orig. cloth. In slightly defective price-clipped dustjacket. (viii, 384pp.). 1st Edition, First Printing: uncommon variant issue bound in brick-red cloth with beige lettered title to spine and with no top edge colour. Nine reported variants exist, all of them scarcer than the primary binding of black cloth with gold spine lettering and red top edge stain. $500
110 FERGUSSON, J. and J. BURGESS. The Cave Temples of India. (New Delhi): Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, (1988). Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth (somewhat shelf-soiled). Spine gilt. (xx, 536pp.). With frontisp. verso, title-vign., num. text-illusts., 1 fold. map, and 96 full-page plates & 2 fold. plates at end. $100
111 FERISHTA, Mahomed Kasim (Transl. from the orig. Persian). History of the Mahomedan Power in India till the Year A.D. 1612. By John Briggs. To which is added, An Account of the Conquest by the Kings of Hydrabad ... 4 vols (complete). New Delhi: Oriental Reprint, (1981). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjackets. With fold. geneal. tables. Fine. $150
112 FIRTH, R. Tikopia Ritual and Belief. Boston (1967). Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (374pp.). With 13 illusts. Fine. $50
113 (FITZGIBBON, Edward). A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-Fishing, Trolling, Bottom-Fishing, and Salmon-Fishing; with the Natural History of River Fish, and the best modes of catching them. By Ephemera. ... Lond: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. Sm. thick 8vo. Contemp. half oasis over marbled paper boards. Spine gilt and with raised bands (slightly faded). (xii, 364pp.). With num. text-illusts. 1st edition. Fine uncut copy. Westwood & Satchell, p.86. $300
114 FLANAGAN, R. The History of New South Wales; with an account of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), New Zealand, Port Phillip (Victoria), Moreton Bay, and other Australasian Settlements. Comprising a Complete View of the Progress and Prospects of Gold Mining in Australia. ... 2 vols. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 1862. Royal 8vo. Qtr. calf over dec. boards (slightly rubbed). Spines gilt titled. Complete. $150
13 115 FLANNERY, T. Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds - On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998. Roy. 8vo. Orig. qtr. cloth. In illust. dustjacket. (x, 326pp.). With half-title vign., 1 double-page and several full-page maps, 16 full-page col. plates, and num. b/w text-illusts. 1st edition. Fine. $50
116 FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, (1962). 8vo. Orig. black cloth with silver dagger on front cover and silver title on spine (slightly rubbed). In soiled & chipped, illust. dustjacket (designed by R. Chopping). (222pp.). With double-page illust., dec. chapter headings, and dec. initials. 1st ed. Endpapers lightly creased and foxed, nonetheless a good copy of this now seldom seen “James Bond” adventure. $125
117 FLINT, W. Russell. Judith. Reprinted from the revised version of the Apocrypha with an introd. by Dr. Montague R. James. ... London: Haymarket Press, 1928. Sm. 4to. Orig. boards (soiled). Gilt. In illust. dustjacket (slightly chipped and shelf-soiled). T.e.g. other edges uncut. (xviii, 50pp.). With tipped-in col. frontisp. and 3 tipped-in col. plates by W. Russell Flint. Lim. ed. of 875 numbered copies. Endpapers browned. $100
118 FLYNN, M. The Second Fleet: Britain’s Grim Convict Armada of 1790. Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1993. Royal 8vo. Orig. gilt-titled cloth. In illust. dustjacket. (xii, 788pp.). With portraits, full-page b/w plates, text-illusts, and endpaper maps. Fine. $95
119 FORTIA D’URBAN, (Marquis de). Memoires pour servir a l’Histoire Ancienne du Globe Terrestre. 10 vols. Paris: Xhrouet et Deterville, 1807-1811. Sm. 8vo. Orig. full speckled calf. Spines uniformly extra gilt with contrasting morocco titling-labels. Fine handsome set. COLLATION: Vol. I Histoire ancienne des Saliens, Nation Ligurienne ou Celtique, et des Saliens pretres de Mars; Vol. II Considerations sur l’origine et l’histoire ancienne du Globe, ...; Vol. III Memoire et Plan de Travail sur l’histoire des Celtes our Gaulois; Vols IV-V Histoire de la Chine avant le Deluge d’Ogiges; Vol. VI Essai sur l’origine des Anciens Peuples, suivi d’une Theorie elementaire des Cometes, ... ; Vol. VII Berose et Annius de Vitorbe, oules Antiquites Caldeennes; Vol. VIII Essai sur quelques-uns des plus Anciens Monumens de la Geographie; Vol IX Histoire et Theorie du Deluge d’Ogiges ou de Noe, et de la Submersion de l’Atlantide; Vol. X Nouveau Sisteme preadamite, ou Concilation de la Genese. $1,500
120 FRANCK, Richard. Northern Memoirs, calculated for the Meridian of Scotland; To which is added, The Contemplative and Practical Angler. Writ in the Year 1658. ... Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable, 1821. Roy. 8vo. Later half crushed oasis. Spine gilt titled and with raised bands. (iv, 10, III-LII, 380pp.). Bound without half-title page, otherwise a fine uncut copy of the 2nd and last edition (250 copies only) edited by Sir Walter Scott. NOTE: First book on Scottish angling - Westwood & Satchell, p.100. $400
121 GAGUIN, R. Un historien au travail a la fin du XVe siecle: Robert Gaguin. By Franck Collard. Geneve: Librairie Droz S.A., 1996. Roy. 8vo. Orig. red cloth. Spine gilt. (368pp.). Text in French. Fine. $85
122 GALE, John. Canberra: History of and Legends Relating to the Federal Capital Territory of the Commonwealth of Australia. ... Appendix, Lake George: Its Discovery and Phenomena ... Queanbeyan, NSW: A.M. Fallick & Sons, 1927. Small 8vo. Orig. dec. cloth (slightly rubbed and soiled). (xx, 164pp.). With portrait, 13 full-page b/w plates, and 2 full-page maps. Some browning to endpapers; small tear to top of front endpaper; child’s pencil marks on prelims; and some occasional foxing, otherwise a very good copy of the rare 1st edition. NOTE: A facsimile limited edition reprint was issued in 1977, but this first edition is seldom offered. $100
14 123 GAMMAGE, Bill. The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939. Melbourne U.P. (1998). Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xx, 292pp.). With illusts., and maps of which 1 is folding. Fine. $60
124 ‘GARRYOWEN’ ( E. Finn). The Chronicles of Early Melbourne, 1835-1852. Historical, Anecdotal and Personal. Centennial Edition ... 2 vols. Melbourne: Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. 4to. Orig. full dark crimson morocco (rebacked). Uniformly extra gilt with titles on front covers and spines. Gilt borders on upper covers. All edges gilt. With portrait, and numerous full-page plates. A particularly good set of the First Edition which so often is found in a delapidated state. Complete and scarce. $2,000
125 GEMMELL, W. And So We Graft from Six to Six: The $125 Brickmakers of New South Wales. (Sydney): Angus & Robertson, (1986). Square 8vo. Orig. cloth (rubbed). In illust. dustjacket. (vi, 90pp.). With title- vign., 24 full-page col. plates, and num. b/w text-illusts. Printed in double column. 1st edition. $40
126 GENTLEMAN ANGLER, THE: Containing Short, Plain, and Early Instructions whereby the most ignorant Beginner may, in a short Time, become a perfect Artist in Angling ... Together with an Appendix, ... By a Gentleman, who has made Angling his Diversion upwards of Twenty-Eight Years. 3rd edition, with large Additions. ... Lond: Printed for C. Hitch, n.d. (circa 1753). Sm. 8vo. Contemp. full panelled calf. Spine skilfully rebacked. (2, vi, 200, 8pp.). With illust. engrv. head, tail and initials. W.& S., p.105. $500
127 GIBB, H.A.R., C.F. BECKINGHAM, & A.D.H. BIVAR. The Travels of Ibn Battuta A.D. 1325-1354. Transl. with revisions and notes from the Arabic Text. Ed. by C.Defremery and B.R.Sanguinetti. 5 vols. complete and all published. Cambridge U.P., 1958-2000. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt. Dustjackets on Vols. 3-5. With frontispieces, one of which is folding, maps, and plans. (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Series: Nos. 110, 117, 141, 178 & 190). Fine. 1st editions. $200
128 GILBERT, L. A Grave Look at History: Glimpses of a Vanishing Form of Folk Art. Sydney: John Ferguson, (1980). Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. In illust. dustjacket. (144pp.). Profusely illust. in col. and b/w. with full-page plates, text-illusts., and illust. endpapers. 1st edition. NOTE: A history of graveyards and their monuments. $50
129 GILLEN, Mollie. The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet. With Appendices by Y. Browning, M. Flynn and M. Gillen. Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1989. Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xlviii, 624pp.). Portrait frontispiece, b/w illusts., maps, & illustrated endpapers. Subscriber’s limited and numbered edition. Fine. NOTE: These biographical entries and associated lists of all persons so far traced who are known to have embarked on the First Fleet for NSW in 1787 have been collected and checked against names appearing in primary sources. $275
130 GLEN BROUGHTON PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIOS, SYDNEY: An Album of 36 original silver gelatin photographs each neatly mounted with the photographer’s pencilled provenance on the mount and set into a large folio album entitled ‘Matinee of Art & Diction, Palace Theatre, June 20th 1918, Italy Red Cross Day Fund’. The charity fund was organised by Mrs. T.H. Kelly with well-known Sydney identities participating in theatrical attire and costumes. The photographs vary in size from 24 x 8.3cm. to 20 x 14.5cm., and we mention some of the participants including: 1. Miss Mary Layton (Wisdom of the Orient) 2. Mrs Macnell Simpson (Calcutta) 3. Mrs T.H. Kelly (The Marchesa di Brignole Sala) 4. Miss Rosamund M’Millan (Giavanua Tornabuoni) 5. Mrs Leslie Walford (the madonna) 6. Miss Nesta Higgins (an angel) 7. Miss Norma Hay
15 8. Mrs Dennis Garvan (Princess Sunbeam) 9. Miss Naomi Waters (the lotus bud) 10. Mrs Venour Nathan (a Nankin maiden) 11. Rosemary Shepherd (an angel) 12. (Miss Enid Mackay) 13. Miss Felicia Garvan (the night moth, age 5) 14. Dorothea Mackellar 15. Margaret Allen, daughter of Arthur Allen (Lady Gifford) 16. Mrs Rankin, Mrs Garvan 17. Miss Barbara Knox 18. Mrs Archie Rankin, Mrs Garvan, Rosemary Shepherd 19. Tom Kelly 20. Beatrice Kelly 21. Miss Langtree, Helen Laidly, Miss Janet Knox 22.Rossie Spars or Ursula Simpson ? 23. Daughter of Neville Dangar, Elizabeth Mary Dangar ? 24. Helen Stephens 25. Barbara Laidley (Street) In fine condition. $1,000
131 GORDON, Ch. The Old Bailey and Newgate. London: T. Fisher Unwin, n.d. (c. 1902). Royal 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. (xii, 362pp.). With frontispiece, title-vignette, and numerous illusts. some of which are full-page. Fine and complete. $55
132 GRAHAM, J. A School of Their Own: The History of the Armidale School. Illustrations by J. White. (Armidale 1994). 4to. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (296pp.). With frontisp., 16 full-page col. plates, num. text-illusts., map, and illust. endpapers. 1st ed. Limited edition of 1,200 copies of which this is No. 622. Author’s signed and inscribed presentation copy. NOTE: History of the School in Northern New South Wales which opened in 1894. $50
133 GRAHAM, R.H. Graphic and Analytic Statics in Theory and Comparison: Their practical application ... To which is added a chapter on wind pressures. ... London: Crosby Lockwood, 1883. 8vo. Orig. cloth. (xii, 378, 32, 16pp.). With numerous text-figs. including 3 folding plates. 1st edition. Ex-library copy. $100
134 GRANT, G.F. The Master Fly Weaver. A treatise primarily devoted to the weaving of hair hackles for artificial fishing flies, but also containing specific instructions in regard to woven bodies, pin-shaped bodies, and other related processes important to the flytier and flyfisher who frequents large western or similar rivers elsewhere. Foreword by D. Whitlock. Illustrations by H. Eckert. Color photography by M. Fong. Portland, Oregon: Champoeg Press, (1980). 4to. Orig. cloth. (viii, 234pp.). With num. text-figs., and 8 loose coloured plates in rear end-pocket. Lim. ed. Fine. $200
135 GREGORY, William. The Second Edition of a Visible Display of Divine Providence; or, The Journal of a Captured Missionary, designated to the Southern Pacific Ocean, in the Second Voyage of the Ship Duff, commanded by Captain Thomas Robson, captured by Le Grand Buonaparte off Cape Frio; ... With extracts compiled from the Journals of the Rev. Peter Levesque, Rev. John Hill, Dr. Turner, James Jones, John Levesque, and other Missionaries captured in the Duff. ... To which is added, the Journal or Tour of the Author, since his return through the North of Ireland ... London: Printed by J. Skirven, for and sold by the Author; Symonds and by all Booksellers and Newscarriers in the three Kingdoms, (1801). 8vo. Orig. hf. calf over marbled paper boards (lower spine slightly defective). Orig. titling-label on spine. (178pp.). With fold. frontisp. map (partly defective), and 6 full-page plates. Not in Hill, nor in Ferguson even though the convict ship ‘Lady Jane Shore’ and the mutiny aboard it is mentioned on pp. 57, 91, and 103-104. There is no record of a First Edition. $850
16 136 GREY, ZANE. Tales of Fresh-Water Fishing. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. 4to. Orig. cloth (spine extremities slightly rubbed). (xii, 278pp.). With frontispiece, 98 plates from photographs taken by the author, and illust. endpapers. 1st edition. Occasional light foxing. $250
137 GREY, Zane. Tales of Tahitian Waters. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. 4to. Orig. cloth (rubbed & marked). (vi, 304pp.). With frontisp., num. full-page plates from photographs taken by the author, and defective illust. endpapers. Ex-library copy. 1st edition. $250
138 GRIFFITHS, John. Notes on the Geometry of the Plane Triangle. Oxford and London: James Parker, 1867. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt titled. (viii, 76, 18pp.). With numerous text-figs. 1st edition. Ex-library copy, but fine. $150
139 GROBBELAAR, N. Cycads: With special reference to the Southern African species. Pretoria: Nat Grobbelaar, 2002. 4to. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (ix, 332pp.). With portrait, num. col. plates of which some full-page, illusts., diagrams, and map. First English edition. Fine. Signed by the author. $75
140 GUNN, Aeneas (Mrs). We of the Never-Never. ... Lond: Hutchinson & Co., (1907). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt. (xii, 340pp.). With frontisp. map, and 8 full-page plates. $95
141 HALFORD, F.M. Dry-Fly Entomology. Leading types of natural insects serving as food for trout and grayling with the 100 best patterns of floating flies and the various methods of dressing them. ... Lond: Vinton & Co., 1902. 8vo. Orig. cloth. (xii, 324pp.). With 28 full-page plates of which 10 are coloured, text-illusts., and 2 fold. tables. Title-page printed in red/black ink. Fine and complete. (Halford Dry-Fly Series, Vol. II). $150
142 HALFORD, F.M. Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice. ... Lond: Vinton & Co., 1899. 8vo. Orig. cloth (slightly rubbed). T.e.g. (xx, 354, 2pp.). With frontispiece, 18 full-page plates some of which are coloured, and text-illusts. Title-page printed in red/black ink. $200
143 HALFORD, F.M. Making a Fishery. ... Lond: Vinton & Co., 1902. 8vo. Orig. cloth (spine extremities & corner points slightly rubbed). (viii, 212pp.). With portrait, 4 full-page illusts., and dec. head- & tail-pieces. Marginal pencil annots. throughout. Inscription on front endpapers. Title- page printed in red/black ink. (The Halford Dry-Fly Series, Vol. III). $60
144 HALFORD, F.M. Modern Development of the Dry Fly: The new Dry Fly Patterns, the Manipulation of Dressing Them, and Practical Experiences of their Use. Lond: George Routledge, 1910. 8vo. Orig. full buckram (slightly scuffed). Spine gilt titled. T.e.g. (viii, 220pp.). With portrait, 43 plates some being coloured, and text-illusts. Title-page printed in red/black ink. 1st ed. Fine and complete. $150
145 HALFORD, F.M. The Dry-Fly Man’s Handbook. A complete manual including the Fisherman’s Entomology and the making and management of a Fishery. Lond: George Routledge, (1913). 8vo. Orig. full buckram (slightly rubbed). T.e.g. (xvi, 416pp.). With photogravure frontisp., 43 full-page plates all with protective tissue-guards, and text-figs. Title-page printed in red/black ink. 1st ed. $150
146 HANDY, E.S.C. The Hawaiian Planter. Vol. I: His Plants, Methods and Areas of Cultivation. Honolulu 1940. Royal 8vo. Orig. printed wrapper. (Spine extremities slightly frayed). (2, iv, 228pp.). With 8 plates and numerous text-figs. Ex-library copy. $75
147 HANZELKA, J. and M. ZIKMUND. Africa: The Dream and the Reality. 3 vols. Prague: Artia, 1955. Roy. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. In chipped, illust. dustjackets. Profusely illust. with frontisps., full-page and
17 double-page plates of which some are col., text-illusts., full-page b/w maps, 3 col. fold. maps, and col. endpaper maps. 1st English edition, translated by I. Urwin. Fine. $200
148 HARMATTA, J. (Ed. by). From Hecataeus to Al-Huwarizmi: Bactrian, Pahlavi, Sogdian, Persian, Sanskrit, Syraic, Arabic, Chinese, Greek and Latin Sources for the History of Pre-Islamic Central Asia. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1984. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (iv, 356pp.). With num. full-page b/w photographic plates, illusts., and maps. Text in English, French, German, and Pahlavi. (Collection of the Sources for the History of Pre-Islamic Central Asia, Series 1, Vol. III). Rear hinge cracked. $75
149 HASSALL, J.S. In Old Australia: Records and Reminiscences from 1794. Brisbane 1902. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. (xvi, 204pp.). With frontisp., and 4 full-page plates. Previous owner’s bookplate on endpaper. Uncut. Some foxing and minor ink annotations. $150
150 HAUGHTON, Samuel. Principles of Animal Mechanics. ... London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. 8vo. Orig. cloth. (xiv, 496pp.). With numerous text-figs. 1st edition. Author’s inscribed present. copy. $150
151 HAYES, Walter. The Captain from Nantucket and the Mutiny of the Bounty. A Recollection of Mayhew Folger, Mariner, who Discovered the Cast Mutineer & his Family on Pitcairn’s Island: together with Letters & Documents never previously Published. Ann Arbor: William L. Clements Library, 1996. Sm. 4to. Orig. qtr. blue cloth over Hessian boards. In its orig. matching slip-case. (144pp.). With col. portrait, title-vign., and other illusts. mostly coloured. Edition lim. to 500 numbered copies fully signed by the author. Fine. $75
152 HAZZARD, Margaret. Punishment Short of Death. A History of the Penal Settlement at Norfolk Island. Melbourne: Hyland House, (1984). 8vo. Original cloth. Dustjacket. (xix, 284pp.). With 34 b/w plates, some full-page, and map endpaper. Fine. $70
153 HENTY, G.A. (Ed. by.). Stories of Brave Boys and Gallant Heroes. Including, Never Say Die ... , Runnymede and Lincoln Fair ..., Dicky Beaumont’s Perils & Adventures ... London: Ward, Lock and Co., n.d. (c. 1892). thick 8vo. Orig. illust cloth (recased; covers rubbed). Gilt. (iv, 512pp.). With numerous full-page plates. $115
154 HENTY, G.A. In Times of Peril. London: O.U.P., n.d. (c. 1925). 8vo. Orig. illust. boards. (368pp.). With col. frontispiece. Fine. $55
155 HEWSON, Helen. Australia: 300 Years of Botanical Illustration. (Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales). (Melbourne): CSIRO Publishing, 1999. 4to. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (x, 228pp.). Beautifully illustrated with title-vign., num. full-page colour plates, and text-illusts. 1st edition. Fine. $60
156 HISTORIANS OF SCOTLAND, THE. Vols. I - X complete and all published. Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, and Wm. Paterson, 1871-1880. 8vo. Orig. full dark green cloth with gilt titles to spines (slightly rubbed). Illustrated. Title-pages printed in red/black ink. Fine uncut copies. Collation - Vol 1: Fordun I; Vols. 2-3: Wyntoun I & II; Vol. 4: Fordun II; Vol. 5: St. Ninian and St. Kentigern; Vol. 6: Life of St. Columbia; Vol. 7: Libel Pluscardensis I; Vol. 8: Innes’ Essay; Vol. 9: Wyntoun III; Vol. 10: Libel Pluscardensis II. NOTE: Published on subscription by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. $500
157 HOLLANDS, David. Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of Australia. (Melbourne 1984). 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xii, 212pp.). Beautifully illust. with numerous col. plates, and a map. Previous owner’s name on front fly-leaf, otherwise fine. $125
18 158 HOMER. Homeri Ilias Graece et Latine. Annotationes in usum serenissimi principis Gulielmi Augusti, ... Regio Jussu. Scripsit atque edidit Samuelis Clarke. ... 2 vols. London 1760. 8vo. Orig. full old calf (spines worn but sound; corners rubbed). With 2 folding engraved maps. Extensively annotated in a fine contemp. hand with neat manuscript notes and corrections. $250
159 HONG, W. Relationship Between Korea and Japan in Early Period: Paekche and Yamato Wa. Seoul: Ilimsa, 1988. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (viii, 280pp.). With num. full-page col. and b/w plates, 7 full-page maps, and endpaper maps. (The Ancient Korean- Japanese History). 1st ed. Small tear on front endpaper. $65
160 HORACE: The Works of Horace, translated into English Prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow; with the Latin text and Order of construction in the opposite page; and Critical, Historical, Geographical, and Classical, notes in English, ... and a Preface to each Poem. ... 2 vols in one. London: Printed for R. Baldwin, ... 1811. Thick 8vo. Orig. full old calf (corners rubbed). Spine skilfully rebacked preserving the orig. spine strip. Text age toned. $625
161 HOWAY, F.W. (Edited by). Voyages of the “Columbia” to the Northwest Coast, 1787-1790 and 1790-1793. The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1941. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt. (xxxii, 518pp.). With portrait, title-vign., plates, and maps. (Facs. reprint Amsterdam 1969). (Bibliotheca Australiana Extra Series). Fine. $50
162 HOWAY, F.W. A List of Trading Vessels in the Maritime Fur Trade, 1785-1825. Edited by Richard A. Pierce. Kingston, Ontario: The Limestone Press, 1973. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt. (vi, 210pp.). (Materials for the Study of Alaskan History, No. 2). Numbered limited edition. $50
163 HOWE, George. NEW SOUTH WALES GENERAL STANDING ORDERS: Selected from the General Orders issued by Former Governors, From the 16th of February, 1791, to the 6th of September, 1800: Also, General Orders issued by Governor King, from the 28th of September, 1800, to the 30th September, 1802. Sydney: Printed at Government Press, 1802. (Facsimile reprint, Black Rock, Vic. 1983). 8vo. Orig. half cloth with marbled paper boards. In orig. matching slip-case. (2, xii, 12, 122pp.). Lim. edition of 150 copies, this being No. 36. Previous owner’s bookplate and some minor foxing to endpapers otherwise fine. NOTE: Facsimile of the first book produced in Australia. $225
164 HOWGEGO, R.J. Encyclopedia of Exploration: A comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of Exploration, Travel and Colonization ... 2 vols. (Vol. 1: From the Earliest Times to 1800; Vol. 2: 1800-1850). (Sydney): Horden House, (2003-2004). Thick 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjackets. With illustrated endpapers, and ribbon markers in each volume. Fine. NOTE: A definitive reference, detailing every significant traveller, voyager and expedition that set out during this period. $400
165 HOWITT, W. Land, Labour and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria, with Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen’s Land. (Kilmore, Vic.: Lowden Publishing Company, (1972). Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. Dustjacket. (xx, 482pp.). (Australian Historical Reprints Series). NOTE: Howitt’s vivid reporting of his close observations of life in Melbourne, Bendigo, Ballarat and other goldfields produced one of the best and most accurate pictures of Australian life in the mid 19th century. $75
166 HOWITT, Wm. A Boy’s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia; or, Herbert’s Note-Book. ... London: Alfred W. Bennett, 1866. Sm. 8vo. Orig. blind-embossed cloth (slightly rubbed) with gilt crested title on front cover and spine. (viii, 248pp.). With 12 full-page illusts. by Harvey. Some ms annots. in text, otherwise a good complete copy of a rare unrecorded issue of this classic work, and although Muir cites a number of editions, none by the above publisher is known. $200
19 167 HUNT, H.A. Results of Rainfall Observations made in New South Wales during 1903-1914. ... with Maps and Diagrams; and including all available annual rainfall totals ... 2 vols. Melbourne: Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, 1910-1916. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers (slightly chipped and discoloured). With full-page charts, graphs, 2 large fold. col. maps, and num. full-page maps of which most are col. Text printed in double-column. Ex-library copies. $110
168 HUNTER, W.C. An American in Canton (1825-44). Published originally as the ‘Fan Kwae’ at Canton before Treaty Days 1825-1844 ... Hong Kong: Derwent Communications, (1994). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xii, 98, viii, 280, 28pp.). With folding plan, and col. plates. Fine. $55
169 HUTCHINSON, H.G. Ed. by. Fishing. 2 vols. Lond: “Country Life”, n.d. (circa 1904-1907). Roy. thick 8vo. Orig. blue cloth with gilt titles to front covers & spines. With 6 coloured plates, num. b/w full-page plates, diagrams, and text-illusts. Titles printed in red/black. 1st edition. Fine and complete. (The “Country Life” Library of Sport). $250
170 HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. A novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. 8vo. Orig. blue cloth (slightly rubbed and partly faded). (vi, 308pp.). 1st edition. Endpapers foxed otherwise a good copy. $75
171 IDRIESS, I.L. Drums of Mer. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1947. Small 8vo. Orig. cloth. In slightly chipped illust. dustjacket. (xii, 276pp.). With frontisp., num. full-page b/w plates, text-illusts., and endpaper maps. Author’s inscribed and signed present. copy. Previous owner’s rubber stamp on front endpaper and last page. $100
172 IDRIESS, I.L. Gold-Dust and Ashes. The romantic story of the New Guinea goldfields. ... Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1945. Sm. 8vo. Orig. cloth (spine faded). In chipped, illust. dustjacket. (viii, 258pp.). With frontisp., full-page b/w plates, and front endpaper map. Endpapers browned and some minor foxing, otherwise a very good copy. $50
173 IDRIESS, I.L. Lasseter’s Last Ride: An Epic of Central Australian Gold Discovery. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1947. Sm. 8vo. Orig. cloth. In defective, illust. dustjacket. (xiv, 252, 2pp.). With frontisp., 8 full-page b/w plates, text-illusts., and endpaper maps. Previous owner’s name on fly-leaf. Some minor foxing but a very good copy overall. $50
174 IDRIESS, I.L. Lightning Ridge. The land of Black Opals. Sydney (1953). 8vo. Orig. cloth. In defective dustjacket. (viii, 224pp.). With frontispiece, and 14 full-page plates. Slightly foxed. NOTE: It was while he was opal-seeking that Idriess was persuaded to become a writer. $65
175 IDRIESS, I.L. Must Australia Fight? Sydney: Angus & Robertson, (1939). 8vo. Orig. cloth (slightly soiled). (8, 224pp.). With 1 full-page map, and endpaper maps. 1st edition. Some foxing, otherwise a very good copy. $350
176 IDRIESS, I.L. The Cattle King: The Story of Sir Sidney Kidman. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1942. Sm. 8vo. Orig. cloth (slightly soiled and edges frayed). In illust. dustjacket (somewhat defective). (x, 356pp.). With portrait, full-page b/w plates, and endpaper maps. Previous owner’s name on endpaper. Some minor foxing. NOTE: Sir Sidney Kidman (1857- 1935) was an Australian pastoralist who controlled over a hundred stations covering an area greater than that of Victoria and Tasmania combined. $50
177 IDRIESS, I.L. The Great Boomerang. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1945. 8vo. Orig. cloth (slightly soiled). In defective illust. dustjacket. (viii, 254pp.). With frontisp., full-page b/w plates, and maps. Previous owner’s name on fly-leaf. $50
20 178 IDRIESS, I.L. The Great Trek. One of the Greatest Feats in Australian Exploration. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1947. Small 8vo. Orig. qtr. cloth over dec. boards. In chipped, illust. dustjacket. (viii, 222pp.). With frontispiece. Previous owner’s name on endpaper. NOTE: Story of Frank and Alexander Jardine’s Expedition from Rockhampton to Somerset, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, a journey of 1,800 miles in ten months in the 1860s. $75
179 IDRIESS, I.L. The Red Chief. As told by the Last of his Tribe. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1953). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket (slightly chipped). (xxvi, 228pp.). With frontisp., full- page b/w plates, and text-maps. Author’s signed presentation copy. 1st edition. Previous owner’s name on endpaper, otherwise a very good copy. $225
180 IDRIESS, I.L. The Vanished People. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1955). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket (part of dustjacket missing). (xii, 210pp.). With frontispiece, full-page b/w plates, text-illusts., and endpaper maps. 1st edition. Endpapers and some pages browned. $65
181 IDRIESS, I.L. The Wild White Man of Badu. A Story of the Coral Sea. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1950). 8vo. Orig. cloth. In chipped, illust. dustjacket. (xiv, 232pp.). With frontisp., full-page b/w plates, 2 full- page maps, and endpaper maps. 1st ed. Previous owner’s inscription on half-title, otherwise a very good copy. $75
182 IDRIESS, I.L. The Works of Ion L. Idriess. National Edition. 12 vols. (complete and all published). Sydney: Angus & Robertson, (1939). 8vo. Orig gilt-dec. cloth. With frontispieces, numerous full-page b/w plates, and text-illusts., including endpaper maps in most vols. A very good set. Eight of the volumes are signed and inscribed by the Author. NOTE: Ion Llewellyn Idriess (1889-1979) made a profound contribution to Australian publishing and literature. His combination of the bush yarn and historical or geographical subjects brought a new vision of Australia to its city-bound readers. ... $750
183 IDRIESS, I.L. The Yellow Joss, and other tales. ... Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1951). Sm. 8vo. Orig. cloth. In chipped, illust. dustjacket. (x, 256pp.). With frontisp., and full-page b/w plates. Some light foxing to edges and endpapers. $75
184 INGHIRAMIO, Curtio. Enthruscarum Antiquitatum Fragmenta. Quibus Urbis Romae, aliarumque gentium primordia, mores, & res genstae indicantur. ... Francofurti 1637. Folio. Later half calf. (xvi, 324pp.). With a double-page copper engrv. plan, 2 fold. engrvs. of which 1 is a map, the other bearing an illust. on its verso, numerous engrvs. in the text, and head/tail/initial engrvs. The text printed within a ruled-line border. NOTE: The author was part of a noble Italian family specializing in Etruscan archaeology. $750
185 IVES, W. The Australian Wool Corporation: The First Decade. ... Melbourne 1994. F’scap folio. Orig. illust. wrapper. (6, iv, 232pp.). With title-vignette. $45
186 IVES, W. The Primary Industry Bank of Australia Limited, 1978- 1987. 2 vols. (Vol. I: 1978-1984; Vol. II: 1984-1987). Sydney 1987-1988. Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. Fine. $65
187 JACOB, G.L. The Raja of Sarawak. An Account of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., LL. D., given chiefly through letters and journals. 2 vols. London: Macmillan, 1876. Royal 8vo. Orig. tan coloured cloth with gilt titles to spines. With portr. in Vol. I, a frontispiece in Vol. II, and 2 folding col. maps. Fine uncut copies. 1st edition. NOTE: James Brooke (1803- 1868) attempted to trade in the Far East, but was not successful. In 1835, his father died and left him £30,000, which he used as capital to purchase
21 a ship, The Royalist. After setting sail for Borneo in 1838, he arrived in Kuching in August of the same year to find the settlement facing a Dayak uprising against the Sultan of Brunei. Offering his aid to the Sultan, he and his crew helped bring about a peaceful settlement and he was granted the title of Rajah of Sarawak by the Sultan. $700
188 JAHANGIR. The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India. Translated, edited, and annotated by W. M. Thackston. New York: OUP, (1999). 4to. Orig. cloth. In illust. dustjacket. (xxvi, 502pp.). With col. frontisp., num. full-page col. plates, col. and b/w text-illusts., map, and family trees. Fine. NOTE: Jahangir is probably best known in the West as the father of Shahjahan, who built the Taj Mahal. $150
189 JAMES, Wm. A Full and Correct Account of the Chief Naval Occurrences of the late War between Great Britain and the United States of America; preceded by a Cursory Examination of the American Accounts of their Naval Actions fought previous to that Period: ... London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817. 8vo. Orig. hf. calf over marbled paper boards (spine rubbed; front hinge starting). (xvi, 528, ccxvi, 16pp.). With 3 full-page engrv. plates. Slightly foxed. Contemp. associated newspaper clippings laid down on prelims, and occasional margin annots. in text, otherwise a good copy complete with Appendix and Index at end. 1st edition. $550
190 JOFFE, M. Yarns and Photos. Beautiful Old Berowra & Hornsby to the Hawkesbury. (Sydney: Sandstone Press, 1992). 4to. Orig. cloth. In illust. dustjacket. (288pp.). Profusely illustrated with title vign., additional double-page illust. title-page., full-page col. and b/w plates, text-illusts., maps, facs., and illust. endpapers. Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author. $80
191 JOHNS, F. Who’s Who in Australia, 1927-8. A record of the careers of prominent and representative people of the time. Adelaide 1927. 8vo. Orig. cloth. (viii, 280pp.). With addendum slip. Fine. $65
192 KEATE. George. An Account of the Pelew Islands. Edited by Karen L. Nero and Nicholas Thomas. London: Leicester University Press, (2002). Roy. 8vo. Orig. illust. boards (edges slightly bumped). (x, 406pp.). With illusts. of which some full-page, and maps. Near fine. $110
193 KESAVAN, B.S. et al. History of Printing and Publishing in India. A Story of Cultural Re-awakening. 3 vols (Vol. I: South Indian Origins of Printing and its Efflorescence in Bengal; Vol. II: Origins of Printing and Publishing in Karnataka, Andhra and Kerala; Vol. III: Origins of Printing and Publishing in the Hindi Heartland). India: National Book Trust, (1985-1997). Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. In slightly chipped dustjackets. With numerous illusts. $150
194 KIRMANI, Mir Hussain Ali Khan. History of Tipu Sultan: Being a Continuation of the Neshani Hyduri. Trans. from the Persian by Col. W. Miles. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1997. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt. (vi, 186pp.). Fine. $45
195 KRAUS, H.P. A Rare Book Saga: The autobiography of H.P. Kraus. New York: Putnam, (1978). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xx, 386pp.). With frontisp. portrait, 32 full-page illusts., and illust. endpapers. 1st ed. NOTE: The memoirs of Hans P. Kraus, generally acknowledged as the world’s foremost rare book dealer and bibliophile. $50
196 LABAT, Pere. The Pirates’ Priest: The Life of Pere Labat in the West Indies 1693-1705. By E. Young and K. Helweg-Larsen. (London: Jarrolds, 1965). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (200pp.). With portr., and endpaper maps. Fine. $45
197 LAFFIN, J. Damn the Dardanelles! The story of Gallipoli. Sydney: Doubleday, (1980). 8vo. Orig. cloth (slightly faded). Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket (slightly chipped). (224pp.). With title-vign., full-page plates, text-illusts., and maps. 1st ed. $45 22 198 LAMBERT, G.W. Thirty Years of an Artist’s Life. The career of G.W. Lambert, A.R.A. By his wife (Amy Lambert). Sydney: Society of Artists, 1938. 8vo. Orig. cloth with morocco titling-label to spine. In the orig. dustjacket. (230pp.). With tipped-in portr., and 17 illusts. Ed. lim. to 200 numbered copies only. Fine. A rare book, as most copies of this First Edition were lost at sea whilst en route to England during W.W.II. $125
199 LANG, J.D. An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales: Including a visit to the gold regions. ... 3rd ed. ... 2 Vols. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. 8vo. Orig. blind-embossed cloth (rubbed and discoloured). Spines gilt. With col. fold. map (with closed tear but complete).Some foxing. $225
200 LAVARACK, B. et al. Dendrobium and its Relatives. (Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 2000). 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (288pp.). Profusely illustrated throughout in colour. 1st ed. Fine. $55
201 LAWSON, Henry. In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1896. 8vo. Orig. dark brown buckram with black lettered title (now faded) to spine (rebacked). Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. (234, viiipp.). With title-vignette of the author as swagman with Bluey the dog (by F.P. Mahony). Previous owner’s name on half-title page, and occasional foxing in text, otherwise a fine and complete copy. First Edition: First Issue with the adverts at end dated January 1896. (Mackaness 2A). Henry Lawson’s first book of Poems: thus extremely rare and desirable. A Second Printing of the 1st edition appeared the following month, with the adverts dated February 1896. $1,150
202 LEES, D. In Search of Derwent Lees. By H.R. Lew. (Melbourne 1996). Oblong 4to. Orig. illust. boards. (56pp.). With full-page colour plates and b/w text-illusts. Fine. $45
203 LEICHHARDT, L. (By C. Roderick). Leichhardt, the Dauntless Explorer. With an introd. by the Rev. Montague Summers. (Sydney 1988). Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (viii, 526pp.). With portr., and numerous illusts. 1st edition. Fine. $45
204 LINDSAY, Jane. Kurrajong. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1945. Sm. 8vo. Orig. cloth. In chipped dustjacket. (vi, 250pp.). 1st edition. $45
205 (LINDSAY, N.) Lysistrata: By Aristophanes. Done into English verse by Jack Lindsay. Sydney: Fanfrolico Press, 1925. Folio. Blue calf backed boards with gilt title along spine. (6, x, 50pp.). With 4 full-page plates mounted on beige col. stock, and 8 text-decorations by Norman Lindsay. Uncut. Special Edition, lim. to 64 numbered copies only, hand- printed on Whatman’s hand-made paper signed by Jack Lindsay and J. Kirtley (the printer). Fine. NOTE: The very first publication of the Fanfrolico Press, preceding the London Fanfrolico issue by one year. $1,500
206 LINDSAY, Norman. Norman Lindsay’s Ship Models. Preface and Commentary by Norman Lindsay. Foreword by Douglas Stewart. (Sydney): Angus & Robertson, (1966). 4to. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt. In slightly chipped, illust. dustjacket. (vi, 98pp.). With title-vign., 8 colour and 34 b/w photographs by Quinton F. Davis of which some are full-page and some double-page, and several b/w sketches by Norman Lindsay. 1st ed. Some pen marks on front endpaper, otherwise a very good copy. $80
207 LINDSAY, Norman. Petronius. A Revised Latin Text of the Satyricon with the Earliest English Translation (1694) now First Reprinted with an Introduction, together with one hundred illustrations by Norman Lindsay. London: Privately printed by Ralph Straus, 1910. Thick 4to. In a designer binding of full crushed oasis. Spine gilt and with raised bands. The four corners on both front & rear covers with inlaid fleur-de-lis gilt images & coloured leather inlays. Inside dentelles. The stunningly handsome binding ( by Hugh Birkett), is blind stamped inside rear board 19HB71,
23 indicating that this is the 19th binding by High Birkett completed in 1971. Some early damp marks on the binding, otherwise a most attractive copy. Thick 4to. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. (6, xvi, 7-304pp.). With 100 full-page plates by Lindsay. 1st Edition, limited to 250 numbered copies only for sale to subscribers, fully signed ‘Norman Lindsay’ (the artist) and ‘Ralph Strauss’ (the printer). $1,500
208 LINDSEY, Terence R. The Seabirds of Australia. (Sydney 1986). 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xvi, 518pp.). Profusely illust. with col. photographic plates, some full-page, and with numerous small maps. 1st ed. Fine. (The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife). NOTE: Comprehensive reference covering the ninety species of birds that inhabit the seas around Australia. $150
209 LOCKE, J. Courtenay. (Edited by). The First Englishmen in India. Letters and Narratives of sundry Elizabethans written by themselves. (London (1930), facs. reprint, New Delhi 1997). 8vo. Original cloth. Dustjacket. (xvi, 230pp.). Frontispiece, 7 plates, and 3 maps. Fine. $45
210 LOCKERBY, W. The Journal of William Lockerby, Sandalwood Trader in the Fijian Islands during the years 1808-1809: With an introduction and other papers connected with the earliest European visitors to the Islands. Ed. by E. Im Thurn and L.C. Wharton. London 1925. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt. (cxii, 252pp.). With frontispiece, 2 plates, and 3 fold. maps in end-pocket. Uncut. (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser: No.52). Fine. $100
211 LOFTIE, W.J. Ed. ... by. Orient-Pacific Line Guide. Chapters for Travellers by Sea and by Land. 6th Edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston, n.d. (circa 1902). Sm. thick 4to. Orig. cloth (slightly marked). (xlviii, 407pp.). With 22 full-page plates of which 5 are coloured and 7 folded, 34 maps of which 18 are coloured and 4 fold., text-illusts., and adverts. Inner rear hinge strengthened, otherwise fine. ADDED: Grand Concert Programme (4pp.). on board R.M.S. ‘Orsova’, held on Wednesday Nov. 17th, 1909, loosely inserted. $100
212 LONGMORE, W. Honeyeaters & their Allies of Australia. (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1991). 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xviii, 430pp.). Profusely illust. throughout in colour. 1st ed. Presentation copy. (The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife). $200
213 LORIMER, J. (Edited by). English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon 1550-1646. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1989. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt. Dustjacket. (xxvi, 500pp.). With numerous footnotes, and outline & contemporary maps. Fine. NOTE: During the first half of the 17th century English and Irish projectors made persistent efforts to maintain trading factories and plantations on the River Amazon. It became the focus of fierce colonial rivalry. (Hakluyt Soc. Second Series, Vol. 171.). $55
214 LOTICHIUS, Joannes Petrus (Henricus Hamelow): Historia augusta Romanorum imperatorum a C. Julio Caesare usque ad Josephum imperatorem augusta (bound with) Imperatores Romani a Julio Caesare (...) carmine perpetuo descripti. Editio secunda priori emendiator. Amstelaedami: Franciscus Halma, 1707. Folio. 2 works in 1 vol. (xiv, 290, 30pp.). Roman and italic letter, woodcut-style engraved decorations and initials, engraved vignettes to title-pages, and to head of second work, full-page engraved title to first, main title in red and black, 162 engraved medallions in first book. Light age-yellowing, the odd thumb mark at the beginning, light browning and foxing towards end, a very good copy in 18th cent. diced Russia (rubbed), gilt dentelles and borders, marbled edges, rebacked, wear to sides. First edition of a guide to the Roman Emperors with engravings of medallions from the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden. It was co-authored by Joannes Jacobus Hofmann and carries footnotes by Henricus Christianus Henninius; at the end is a long ode on the Emperors by Henricus Hamelow. The book has a very unclear pagination and collation and lists emperors out of chronological sequence (the pagination making it clear that the leaves should be placed here). An exhaustive checking points to its being complete. $1,250
24 215 LOVETT, Richard. The History of the London Missionary Society 1795 -1895. 2 vols. London: Henry Frowde, 1899. Roy. 8vo. Orig. crimson coloured cloth with bevelled boards (spines slightly discoloured). T.e.g. other edges uncut. With 2 frontispieces, 14 portrs. each with a protective tissue-guard, 4 full-page maps of which 2 are col., and 11 folding coloured maps. Occasional pencil markings in text, otherwise a very good complete copy. Scarce. NOTE: Important for the early history of the South Seas, Africa, Madagascar, West Indies, and China. $1,000
216 LOW, C. Rathbone. (Lieut.) Her Majesty’s Navy, including Its Deeds and Battles. 3 vols. complete. London: J.S. Virtue & Co., n.d. (c. 1880). 4to. Orig. illust. dark blue cloth with bevelled boards. Gilt. Spines gilt (but slightly discoloured). All edges gilt. With 46 full-page coloured chromolithographs including 3 additional illust. title-pages and all with their orig. tissue-guards. Some occasional old damp-staining/foxing, but nonetheless an excellent crisp set with the letterpress titles printed in red/ black ink. The illustrations by W.C. Symons and W.F. Mitchell. $500
217 MACARTNEY, Lord (George). An Embassy to China. Being the Journal kept by Lord Macartney during his Embassy to the Emperor Ch’ien-lung 1793-1794. Introd. by J. Spence. Ed. by J.L. Cranmer-Byng. The Folio Society, 2004. Sm. 4to. Orig. qtr. cloth over patterned paper boards. In illust. slip-case. (xviii, 314pp.). With num. col. sketches by William Alexander, and endpaper maps. Fine. $60
218 MACKANESS, G. Coll. and ed. by. Fourteen Journeys Over The Blue Mountains of New South Wales, 1813-1841. Sydney: Horwitz- Grahame, (1965). Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In slightly shelf-soiled price-clipped dustjacket. (xii, 274pp.). With 8 full-page b/w plates, and text-illusts. Inscribed and signed by the author to John Spalding, whose bookplate is on front endpaper. Assoc. ephemera loosely inserted. $50
219 MALINOWSKI, B. A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. Preface by V. Malinowski. Introd. by R. Firth. Transl. by N. Guterman ... New York (1967). 8vo. Original cloth. Dustjacket. (xxii,316pp.). With a facsimile, 3 maps, and endpaper maps. 1st ed. Fine. NOTE: Contains an index of Native Terms by M. Bick. A personal record of the famous anthropologist in primitive New Guinea. $55
220 MALINOWSKI, B. The Ethnography of Malinowski. The Trobriand Islands 1915-18. Ed. by M.W. Young. London: Routlege & Kegan Paul, (1979). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (x, 254pp.). With 8 full-page plates, maps and diagrams. Editor’s signed present. copy. 1st ed. $45
221 MALOUF, David. First Things Last. Poems by David Malouf. (Brisbane): Q.U.P., (1980). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket (spine slightly faded). (vi, 58pp.). 1st ed. Review copy slip loosely inserted. $75
222 MALOUF, David. Johnno. A Novel. Queensland: University Press, (1975). 8vo. Orig. cloth. In illust. dustjacket (spine slightly faded). (viii, 170pp.). 1st ed. Fine. NOTE: The author’s first novel. $80
223 MALOUF, David. Ransom. (Sydney): Knopf, 2009. 8vo. Orig. cloth. In illust. dustjacket. (vi, 224pp.). First edition. Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author. Assoc. ephemera loosely inserted. $75
224 MANDEVILLE, J. The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. Which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, with other Ilands and Countryes. Now publish’d entire from an Original MS. in the Cotton Library. London: Printed for J. Woodman and D. Lyon, 1725. Royal 8vo. Orig. full mottled calf (rebacked to match). Raised spine bands and morocco titling label. (xxiv, 384, viiipp.). With head & tail-piece woodcuts. Title-page printed in red/black ink. Large Paper Copy. Complete. Fine. One of 350 copies only printed (as noted from the records of London printer William Bowyer who undertook the printing of
25 this work for J. Woodman and D. Lyon in Russell Street, Covent-Garden. NOTE: Among the most popular mediaeval accounts, Sir John Mandeville’s Travels had a profound influence on the European conception of Asian topography for at least 200 years. Mandeville claims to have set out from St. Albans in 1322 and to have visited the Middle East and Palestine, then continued to India, Tibet, China, Java and Sumatra. $2,000
225 MARCHAND, E. Voyage Round the World, performed during the years 1790, 1791, and 1792. ... Trans. from the French by C.P.C. Fleurieu. 2 vols. London 1801. (Reprint, Bibliotheca Australiana: No.23- 24, Amsterdam 1969). Sm.4to. Orig. cloth with blue titling labels. With plates and maps most of which are fold. Fine. $150
226 MARKHAM, Clements R. (Ed. by) The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies, with Abstracts of Journals of Voyages to the East Indies, during the Seventeenth Century, Preserved in the India Office. And the Voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to seek the North- West Passage. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1877. (Reprinted, New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1998). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. Dustjacket. (xxii, 314pp.). $50
227 MARKHAM, G. The Pleasures of Princes; or, Good Mens Recreations; Together with, The Experienced Angler, by Col. Robert Venables. With a Preface by Horace Hutchinson. Lond: The Cresset Press, 1927. Sm. 4to. Orig. qtr. vellum over plain paper boards. T.e.g. Dustjacket. (xxiv, 112pp.). Edition limited to 650 numbered copies. Presentation inscription on front fly-leaf. $65
228 MASCALL, Leonard. A Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line. Reprinted from the edition of 1590. With Preface and Glossary by T. Satchell. Lond: W. Satchell and Co., 1884. Sm. 4to. Orig. qtr. roan (rubbed). T.e.g. other edges uncut. (xii, 52pp.). With wood-cut text-illusts. Inscription on title-page. $300
229 MAXWELL, Herbert. (Ed. by). Chronicles of the Houghton Fishing Club, 1822-1908. ... Lond: Edward Arnold, 1908. 4to. Orig. full green buckram with bevelled boards, and parchment titling label to spine. T.e.g. other edges uncut. (xii, 266pp.). With portraits, plates, and text-illusts. Title-page printed in red/black ink. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies only. Fine. $300
230 MAZZA, Tommaso (pseud. Didimo Ropaligero Liviano). I Goti Illustrati: overo Istoria de Goti Antichi, con varie digressioni in materie parimente antiche, e singolari. Insertovi l’Apologia per Frate Gioanni Annio viterbase, ... Verona: Antonio Rossi, 1677. Folio. Orig. full parchment boards with inked title in manuscript to spine. (ii, 304pp.). With woodcut devices to title-page plus dec. initials. Contemp. manuscript inscription on title-page, a library rubber stamp dated 1871, a few other ms. markings on endpapers, and a little old worming to first & last leaves touching text but without serious loss. Overall a very good uncut copy. First Edition. NOTE: A history of the Gothic invasions in the 5th and 6th century of Italy, taken from extant sources including Cassiodorus, Procopius, and Annius of Viterbo (1432-1502). $650
231 McGILLIVRAY, D.J. Grevillea, Proteaceae: A Taxonomic Revision. Melbourne: Miegunyah Press/MUP, 1993. Folio. Orig. cloth with gilt-titled spine. In illust. dustjacket. (xiv, 466pp.). Profusely illustrated with col. title-vign., col. photographic plates, maps of which some full-page, and b/w botanical illusts. Printed in double-column. First edition. Fine. $120
232 MEAD, M. Margaret Mead and Samoa. The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth. By D. Freeman. Canberra 1983. Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xviii, 380pp.). With 6 full-page plates. $50
233 MELVILLE, Herman. Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; Being a sequel to the “Residence in the Marquesas Islands”.
26 London: John Murray, 1847. Sm. 8vo. Orig. cloth (rebacked). Spine gilt. (xiv, 322, 16pp.). With map frontisp. Page 161 ink-stained. 1st English ed. published one month before the American edition. NOTE: Melville, who has been called ‘the most powerful of the American writers’, wrote his most important works about the Pacific. This work deals with his part in the mutiny aboard the ‘Julia’, called in the book ‘Lucy Ann’. $450
234 MENANT, D. The Parsis: Being an Enlarged and Copiously Annotated, Up To Date English Edition of Mlle. Delphine Menant’s Les Parsis. ... 3 vols. Bombay: Danai, 1995-1996. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spines gilt. In illust. dustjackets (spines faded). With frontisp. portraits, full-page b/w plates, and text-illusts. (Facs. reprint of 1917 edition). $110
235 MEREDITH (nee Twamley), Louisa Anne. An Autumn Ramble on the Wye. With twenty (but 18 only) engravings from drawings by Felding, Cox, Warren, and Radclyffe. London: W.S. Orr and Co., (Sept. 15, 1838). 8vo. Orig. blind embossed green cloth with gilt borders on both covers (backboard damp stained). Spine extra gilt. Edges gilt. (xii, 9-154, 2pp.). With additional engrv. title-page & vignette, 17 full-page captioned engrv. plates each with a protective tissue-guard, and 2 full-page maps. Whilst Ferguson 2550 locates only a single entry, our copy is totally different in so far as that ours has a different publisher, different wording on title-page, different pagination, and our copy includes 2 maps not cited by Ferguson. Our copy contains 18 engravings plus the 2 maps, which all-up total 20 plates, and our copy is issued under the series ‘The Annual of British Landscape Scenery’. An interesting variant of this obscure work published prior to the author’s marriage to Charles Meredith. She wrote and illustrated numerous books on Australian colonial life, as well as on the flora of Tasmania. $600
236 MILBURN, W. Oriental Commerce; Containing a Geographical Description of the Principal Places in the East Indies, China, and Japan, ... Two vols. London: Black, Parry, & Co., 1813. 4to. Orig. cloth. Gilt. In illust. dustjackets. With several full-page maps. (Facs. reprint New Delhi 1999). Fine. $100
237 MINNS, E.H. Scythians and Greeks. A Survey of Ancient History and Archaeology on the North Coast of the Euxine from the Danube to the Caucasus. New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1971. 4to. Orig. cloth. Gilt. (xl, 720pp.). With numerous illusts. and maps most of which are fold. Fine and complete. $250
238 M’INTOSH, Charles. The New and Improved Practical Gardener, and Modern Horticulturist; exhibiting the latest and most approved management of Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower Gardens, the Green- House, Hot-House, Conservatory, &c. &c. for every month of the year. ... London: Thomas Kelly, 1839. Thick royal 8vo. Later plain paper boards with calf titling-label to spine. (iv, 972pp.). With numerous wood-cut text- illusts. Text toned & some soiling. Some marginal annots. NOTE: The author was Gardener to the King of the Belgians at Claremont and Dalkeith Palace. $300
239 MORTON, C. The Art of Theatrical Make-up. Lond: A. and C. Black, 1909. 4to. Orig. illust. cloth (slightly dust soiled). (x, 138pp.). With portrait, and num. illusts. $50
240 MOYLE, R. Tongan Music. Foreword by The Honourable Ve’ehala. Auckland U. P., (1987). 4to. Orig. cloth. In illust. dustjacket. (256pp.). With num. illusts. of which some full-page, musical scores, and maps. Song lyrics in Tongan with English translations. 1st ed. Fine. $100
241 MUIR, T. (By J. Earnshaw). Thomas Muir: Scottish Martyr. Some Account of his Exile to New South Wales, his Adventurous Escape in 1796, Across the Pacific to California, and thence, by Way of New Spain, to France. Cremorne, N.S.W. 1959. Sm. 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. (vi,
27 84pp.). With portr. and 3 full-page illusts. Stencilled work. (Stud. Aust. & Pacific Hist. No. 1). Ed. lim. to 300 copies. $40
242 MULLER, F. Max. Edit. by. Sacred Books of the East. 50 vols. (complete and all published). Translated by Various Oriental Scholars. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, (1993-1995). 8vo. Orig. full cloth. Gilt. A fine set. NOTE: These volumes of the Sacred Books of the East include translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions that have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia. The Vedic Brahmanic System claims 21 volumes, Buddhism 10, and Jainism 2; 8 volumes comprise Sacred Books of the Parsees; 2 volumes represent Islam; and 6 the two main indigenous systems of China. Translated by twenty leading authorities in their respective fields, the volumes have been edited by the late F. Max Muller. $950
243 MUNDY, Capt. (G.C.). Pen and Pencil Sketches, being the Journal of a Tour in India. 2 vols. ... London: John Murray, 1833. 8vo. Orig. full presentation calf (rubbed). Spine (discoloured) with raised bands and contrasting morocco titling-labels. Marbled endpapers and matching edges. With a folding engrv. map, 16 etched full-page plates, and 9 woodcuts. The plates are slightly foxed, otherwise a fine complete handsomely bound set. NOTE: The author was Aide-de-Camp to Lord Combermere, and this work relates to a hunting trip. $400
244 MURRAY, Hugh, J. CRAWFORD, a.o. An Historical and Descriptive Account of China; Its ancient and modern history, language, literature, religion, ... 3 vols (complete and all published). Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1836. Sm. 8vo. Orig. full calf. Spines uniformly gilt and with raised bands but discoloured. Marbled edges and matching endpapers. Gilt dentelles. With fold. engrv. map, and 36 engravings by Jackson some of which are full-page and 3 being half-title vignettes. Some foxing, but a good complete set. 1st edition. $450
245 MURRAY, Les A. Poems Against Economics. (Sydney): Angus and Robertson, (1972). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (viii, 70pp.). 1st ed. Top edge foxed otherwise a fine copy. Assoc. ephemera loosely inserted. NOTE: Les Murray is one of Australia’s greatest poets, whose work helps to define what it is to be Australian. He has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the TS Eliot Award (1996) and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry (1999). $150
246 MURRAY, Les A. The Weatherboard Cathedral. Poems. (Sydney): Angus and Robertson, (1969). 8vo. Orig. cloth. In illust. dustjacket. (x, 78pp.). 1st ed. Signed and dated by author. Desirable thus. Assoc. newspaper clippings loosely inserted. $300
247 NANNI, Giovanni. (a.k.a. Annius of Viterbo 1432-1502). Antiquitatu variaru volumina XVII cum Commentariis. (Paris): Venundatur ab Joanne Paruoz, (1515). 4to. Orig. full vellum with inked manuscript title along spine (rear cover & spine partly defective). With woodcut vignette on title (being the printer’s device used by the Ascendean Press in 1507), dec. woodcut initials, and a text-illust. NOTE: This work professes to give passage to the lost works of Berosus, Fabius Pictor, and other ancient writers, but was judged a forgery. Nonetheless a beautiful example of early printing. $1,500
248 (NANNI, Giovanni. ? 1432-1502). Le Antichita Di Beroso Caldeo. Sacerdote, et d’altri Scrittori, cosi Hebrei, come Greci, et Latini, ... Tradotte ... da M. Francesco Sansovino. ... Venice: Alto bello Salicato, 1583. Sm. 4to. Orig. full old sheep (extremities rubbed). (xvi, 112 double-paged pp.). With wood-cut engrv. title-vignette, and dec. initials. NOTE: ‘The first really modern theorist of critical reading of historians, Nanni developed clear, coherent rules for evaluating the authenticity of historical sources’ (Grafton). He further cloaked his 15th century fabrications in learned commentaries and even staged an excavation to ‘discover’ the famous edict of the Lombard king Desiderius written in an imitation of Lombardic
28 script (here ff. 73-5) A good copy. Grafton, Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship; Hoffman I: 424. $1,000
249 NATHAN, I. Isaac Nathan: Australia’s First Composer. A lecture delivered at the Conservatorium of Music, Sydney. By C.H. Bertie. With a foreword by H. Verbrugghen. Sydney 1922. 8vo. Orig. printed wrapper (soiled). (24pp.). With portrait. $50
250 NAUTICAL ALMANAC, The. And Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year 1824. Published by Order of the Commissioners of Longitude. London: Printed by T. Bensley, 1821. 8vo. Orig. full calf (front hinge strengthened). Spine gilt (but rubbed) with contrasting morocco titling-label. (xxvi, 186, 4pp.). A good copy. Complete. $450
251 NICHOLSON, M.A. The Carpenter & Joiner’s Companion, in the geometrical Construction of Working Drawings, required by journeymen in the progress of Building. Comprehending a Complete System of Lines. Improved from the original principles of Mr. P. Nicholson. ... Lond: Fisher, Son, & Co., (1826). Thick 8vo. Orig. full old calf (binding broken). (viii, 264pp.). With num. full-page engrv. plates, and text-figs. Some offsetting and foxing. $500
252 NORRIS, T. The American Angler’s Book: embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish, and the Art of Taking Them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is added, Dies Piscatoriae; ... Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co., 1865. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth with bevelled boards. Spine gilt titled. T.e.g. (702pp.). With plates and num. illusts. Fine and complete. W.&S., p.157. $175
253 NUGENT, Lady. Lady Nugent’s Journal of her residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805. A new and revised edition by Philip Wright. Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Jamaica, 1966. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. Dustjacket. (xxxvi, 332pp.). With portrait, 19 full-page b/w plates, fold. map, and endpaper maps. Blue pen underlining on some pages. $40
254 O’GORMAN. The Practice of Angling, particularly as regards Ireland. 2 vols. Introd. by K. McKenna & P. Gageby. (Devon): The Flyfisher’s Classic Library, 1993. 8vo. Orig. qtr. green morocco. Gilt titled. In orig. slip-case. With frontisp. to Vol. I. Lim. ed. Fine. $125
255 OLSEN, P., F. CROME. and J. OLSEN. Birds of Prey & Ground Birds of Australia. The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. (Sydney 1993). 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (viii, 200pp.). Profusely illust. with col. plates, some full-page, and text-maps. 1st edition. Fine. $125
256 ORANGE, James. The Nottingham Annual Register; containing an Almanack, useful tables, chronicles of Parliament, ... Also, A new and corrected Directory for 1840. ... Lond: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1840. 8vo. Orig. cloth (rebacked). (10, 154, 24pp.). With interest. adverts. at end. Fine. $75
257 OXLEY, John. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, Undertaken ... in the Years 1817-18. London: John Murray, 1820. 4to. Orig. cloth (damp-stained). Spine gilt. (xvi, 408pp.). With several full-page b/w and col. plates, 1 fold. b/w plate, and 5 fold. charts at end. (Aust. Facs. Eds. No.6, Adelaide 1964). Endpapers foxed. $200
258 PALMER, Andrew. Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The early history of Tur Abdin. Cambridge University Press, 1990. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (xxiv, 266pp.). With b/w plates of which some full-page, text-illusts., maps, and plans. (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 39). With a 500-page microfiche supplement containing the first editions of the Qartmin Trilogy (a monastic
29 text referred to frequently in the book), and the Book of Life, a document about a Christian village and its will to survive. Fine. $225
259 PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA, ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF. ... General Editor: Peter Ryan. 3 vols. (incl. Index vol. with fold. map in end-pocket). Melbourne (1972). Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Illust. ADDED: Corrigenda slip loosely inserted. $150
260 PARKINSON, C. N. Trade in the Eastern Seas, 1793-1813. London: Cambridge University Press, 1937. Thick Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In slightly chipped, illust. dustjacket. (xiv, 436pp.). With 6 full- page b/w plates., 2 full-page maps, and 1 fold. map at end. Some foxing to endpapers. Scarce in dustjacket. $150
261 PAVORD, Anna. The Tulip. (London: Bloomsbury, 1999). Sm. thick 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (viii, 440pp.). With coloured title-vignette, numerous plates most of which are coloured, and illust. endpapers. 1st ed. Fine. NOTE: The story of a flower that has made men mad. Greed, desire, anguish, devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip from a wild flower of the Asian steppes to the world-wide phenomenon it is today. $35
262 PEARCE, A. (By Dan Sprod). Alexander Pearce of Macquarie Harbour: Convict - Bushranger - Cannibal. Hobart: Cat & Fiddle Press, (1977). 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. (xvi, 176pp.). With portrait, 1 double-page & several full-page b/w plates, and endpaper maps. Titles printed in red. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies, fully signed “Dan Sprod”. Fine. $55
263 PEARN, John. (Ed. by). Animal Toxins & Man. Human poisoning by toxic Australian venomous creatures. Brisbane: Qld Health Dept., (1981). 8vo. Half calf over marbled paper boards. Spine gilt. (viii, 134pp.). Copiously illustrated in both colour & b/w. Author’s inscribed and signed presentation copy to David McPhee. Fine. $75
264 (PENN, Richard). Maxims and Hints for an Angler, and Miseries of Fishing. ... To which are added, Maxims and Hints for a Chess Player. Lond: John Murray, 1833. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. half crushed oasis over marbled paper boards. Spine gilt titled and with raised bands. T.e.g. other edges uncut. (iv, 60pp.). With 12 full-page plates by Seymour (slightly discoloured) each with its protective tissue-guard. 1st edition. W.&S., p. 168. $300
265 PENZIG, Edgar F. A Real Flash Cove: The Story of the Bushranger, John Gilbert. Sydney: Kangaroo Press, (1983). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (160pp.). With portrait, and num. b/w illusts. 1st edition. Fine. $150
266 PERRIN, Mrs. H., and Prof. BOULGER. British Flowering Plants. Illustrated by Three Hundred Full-page Coloured Plates Reproduced from Drawings by Mrs. Henry Perrin, with Detailed Descriptive Notes and an Introduction by Professor Boulger, F.L.S. Four vols. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1914. Folio. Orig. full cream buckram (slightly soiled; spines darkened). Gilt. Profusely illustrated with full-page colour plates, each with its protective tissue-guard, and b/w dec. tailpieces. Some light foxing to endpapers otherwise a nice set, of interest to plant collectors, gardeners, and students of botany. $300
267 PETRIE, T. Tom Petrie’s Reminiscences of Early Queensland, (dating from 1837). Recorded by his Daughter (C.C. Petrie). Brisbane 1904. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth (covers slightly rubbed). (xvi, 320pp.). With portr., 15 full-page plates, fold. plan, and errata-slip. 1st edition. Rare. $300
268 PHILLIP, Arthur. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson &
30 Norfolk Island; ... to which are added The Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball & Capt. Marshall with an Account of their New Discoveries. ... London 1789. 4to. Orig. full morocco (slightly marked). Spine gilt. T.e.g. (2, 2, 8, 4, viii, 8, x, 298, lxxiv, 2pp.). With portrait, title-vign., views, plans, portraits, etc. An explanatory note regarding the binding design tipped in on front fly-leaf. NOTE: Facsimile edition. Being the first volume in the series, The Australian Facsimiles, Melbourne (1950). Limited and numbered edition. $250
269 (PIGGOTT, Solomon). The Memorialist, for 1831. Recollections of Two beloved Daughters, A much esteemed Parishioner, and the ever memorable Princess Charlotte, with Two Sermons, to the young and the Bereaved; And Gabriel and Maria, A Poem, in Memory of Mary; illustrating the love of guardian angels. ... By a Beneficed Clergyman. Lond: Seeley and Burnside, 1831. (Printed in Woburn by S. Dodd). Sm. 8vo. Contemp. half calf (by Riviere & Son). Spine extra gilt, with raised bands and contrasting morocco titling-label. T.e.g. other edges uncut. (2, xvi, 232, 6pp.). With fold. frontispiece, and a full-page engrv. portrait. $150
270 PIRIE, A.A. Commando - Double Black. An Historical Narrative of The 2/5th Australian Independent Company. Later the 2/5th Cavalry Commando Squadron 1942-1945. Sydney 1993. Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xvi, 526pp.). With title-vign., numerous illusts., and maps. 1st ed. Signed by the author. Fine. NOTE: Unit served in New Guinea and Borneo. $115
271 PLOMLEY, N.J.B. The Baudin Expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines 1802. Hobart: Blubber Head Press, 1983. Folio. Orig. dec. cloth. Gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (x, 246pp.). With col. frontisp., 16 col. and 7 b/w full-page plates, 4 b/w text-illusts., 5 full-page maps, and col. illust. end-papers. Lim. ed. of 1,000 copies of which this is No. 955, signed by the author. A fine copy. NOTE: Nicolas Baudin (1754-1803) was a French Naval captain, who led an expedition to Australia from 1800 to 1803, when he died of sickness. This study is about the expeditions and travels around Tasmania in 1802 and his observations of the Aborigines there a year before the first white settlement. $300
272 PLUNKETT, J.H. The Australian Magistrate; or, A Guide to the Duties of a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New South Wales: Also, a brief summary of the Law of Landlord and Tenant. ... Sydney: Anne Howe, 1835. 8vo. Orig. hf. calf on rubbed marbled paper boards with contrasting title-label to spine. (8, xxiv, 428, xxiv, xxxviii pp.). Some occasional foxing/soiling, otherwise a fine copy of the First Issue of the FIRST AUSTRALIAN PRACTICE BOOK OF ITS KIND (a second edition was published in 1840). It had great importance in effecting uniformity in the procedure of the lower courts. Plunkett was appointed His Majesty’s Solicitor-General for the Colony of New South Wales. Printed for the Author at the Gazette Office in Sydney. Ferguson 2002. Extremely rare. $1,000
273 POLLARD, A.W. and G.R. REDGRAVE. (Compl. by). A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640. 3 vols. (Vol. 1: A-H; Vol. 2: L-Z; Vol. 3: A Printers’ & Publishers’ Index , Other Indexes & Appendices, Cumulative Addenda & Corrigenda). London: The Bibliographical Society, 1976-1991. 4to. Orig. cloth. Spines gilt. Vols. 1 & 3 in dustjackets (chipped and shelf-soiled). With fold. map. Printed in double-column. NOTE: This revised and enlarged edition was begun by W.A. Jackson and G.S. Ferguson, and completed after Prof. Jackson’s death by his principal assistant, Katharine F. Pantzer. An invaluable resource for historians, literary scholars and bibliographers working with material printed before the English Civil War. $225
274 PORT ROYAL. A New Method of learning with Facility the Latin Tongue, Containing the Rules of Genders, Declensions, Pretorites, Syntax, Quantity, and Latin Accents. ... With a Treatise on Latin Poetry. Translated from the French of the Messieurs de Port Royal. ... 2 vols. London: J.
31 Nourse, 1758. 8vo. Orig. full calf (hinges starting but still sound). Spines with raised bands and morocco titling-labels. A good tight set. $150
275 PORTLOCK, Nathaniel (Capt.). A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788, in The King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon. ... London 1789. (Repr. Amsterdam 1968). Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth with blue titling pieces. (2, xii, 384, xlpp.). With 20 plates and maps many of which are folded. (Bibliotheca Australiana No.43). Fine. $75
276 POWELL, A. The Third Force: Angau’s (Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit) New Guinea War, 1942-46. (South Melbourne): O.U.P., (2003). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xii, 292pp.). With num. illusts., and maps. (The Australian Army Historical Series). Fine. $60
277 (PRINGLE, J.D.). The Waterbirds of Australia. (Sydney 1985). 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xviii, 332pp.). Profusely illust. with col. photographic plates, some full-page, and numerous small maps. 1st ed. (The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife). NOTE: An important and comprehensive reference work covering the sixty-seven species of birds inhabiting the marshes, swamps, rivers and other wetlands of Australia. $125
278 (PRINGLE, J.D.). The Wrens & Warblers of Australia. (Sydney): Angus & Robertson, (1982). 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xxiv, 344pp.). Profusely illust. throughout in colour. 1st ed. Fine. (The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife). $150
279 PRINGLE, John Douglas. The Shorebirds of Australia. (Sydney 1987). 4to. Original cloth. Dustjacket. (694pp.). Colour illustrations throughout. Fine. NOTE: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. The 4th in a series of 10 volumes. This volume covers the 106 species of birds that live on or near the coasts, beaches, reefs and tidal mudflats of Australia’s seashores. $150
280 (PROUT, E.) Missionary Ships connected with The London Missionary Society. London: Printed by W. Stevens, for the London Missionary Society, 1865. Sm. 8vo. Orig. cloth with illust. gilt title to front cover (lower spine rubbed). (viii, 104pp.). With frontisp., title-vignette, a full-page map, and numerous text-illusts. 1st edition. Not in Hill. Assoc. inscription on prelims. Very scarce. $650
281 QUIN, F.F. (Dr.). Pharmacopoeia Homoeopathica. London: Veneunt Apud S. Highley, 1834. 8vo. Orig. old plain paper boards. Spine backed and with replaced printed paper titling label. (xxviii, 166pp.). Uncut. Some old damp marks in text, otherwise a complete copy of the 1st Edition of the first English Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia. Extremely rare. Colophon: C. Roworth & Sons, Bell Yard, Temple Bar. NOTE: Dr. Frederick Foster Quin (1799-1878) was the private medical doctor of Prince Leopold (later King of Belgium) and founder of the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital. It was Quin who introduced homoeopathy in England two years after the first organon appeared in Paris in 1832. $1,000
282 RAPIN, C. Indian Art from Afghanistan: The Legend of Sakuntala and the Indian Treasure of Eucratides at Ai Khanum. (New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors), 1996. Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In slightly chipped illust. dustjacket. (vi, 164pp.). With 21 full-page illusts. and maps at end. 1st ed. $100
283 RASMUSSEN, K. Greenland by the Polar Sea. The Story of the Thule Expedition from Melville Bay to Cape Morris Jesup. Trans. from the Danish by A. & R. Kenney. ... London: William Heinemann, 1921. Sm. 4to. Orig. illust. cloth (spine rebacked) with silver illust. on front cover. (xxiv, 328pp.). With col. frontisp., 7 col. plates, 149 illusts., and col. fold.
32 map. 1st ed. Fine. NOTE: The Appendices contain a chapter on the Flora and Fauna on the North Coast of Greenland. $400
284 RAY, H.P. and J.-F. SALLES. (Edited by). Tradition and Archaeology: Early Maritime Contacts in the Indian Ocean. (New Delhi): Manohar Publishers and Distributors, (1996). 4to. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket (slightly chipped). (x, 338pp.). With num. illusts. of which many full-page, maps, and diagrams. 1st ed. $100
285 REGAN, Hi. (J.J. Dunne). How and Where to Fish in Ireland. A hand-guide for Anglers. ... Lond: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1886. Sm. 8vo. Orig. two-tone cloth with gilt title to front cover and spine. (viii, 176, 32pp.). With fold. coloured map, num. text-figs., and publisher’s adverts. at end. Bookplate inside front cover. Fine. $350
286 RICHARDS, T. (Compl. by). An Epitome of the Official History of New South Wales, from the foundation of the Colony, in 1788, to the close of the first session of the eleventh parliament under responsible government, in 1883. Compl. chiefly from the Official and Parliamentary Records of the Colony. Sydney 1883. Roy. 8vo. Orig. half morocco. Spine gilt with raised bands. (xii, 790pp.). With col. fold. map, fold. table, and errata-slip. Slightly foxed. $200
287 RILEY, J.J. and D. P. BANKS. Orchids of Australia. (Sydney): UNSW Press, (2002). Folio. Orig. cloth. In illust. dustjacket. (xiv, 308pp.). Profusely illustrated in colour with frontisp., full-page botanical drawings, and text-maps. 1st edition. Fine. $65
288 RITCHIE, J. The Australian Trout. Its Introduction and Acclimatisation in Victorian Waters. Melbourne: The Victorian Fly-Fishers’ Assoc. (1988). 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Dustjacket. (104pp.). With numerous illusts. Lim. ed. Fine. $50
289 ROBERTS, LORD. Forty-One Years in India: From Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief. ... London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1898. Thick 8vo. Orig. dec. cloth. Gilt. (xxii, 598pp.). With portr. frontisp. & tissue-guard, and 40 illusts. including 29 full-page engrv. plates, 3 full-page plans, 8 fold. plans most in col., and dec. endpapers. 1st edition in one volume. Previous owner’s name on endpaper and title-page, and some occasional light foxing. NOTE: Frederick Sleigh Roberts, first Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford (1832-1914), was an outstanding British Officer during the Victorian era. In 1858 he won the Victoria Cross during the Indian Mutiny. He gained fame as a Major-General during the Second Afghan War of 1878-1880, with his march from Kabul to the relief of Kandahar. In 1900 he was commander-in-chief of British forces in the South African War, where he captured the Boer’s capitals of Bloemfontein and Pretoria. $75
290 ROBERTSON, G. The Discovery of Tahiti. A Journal of the Second Voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin round the World, under the Command of Captain Wallis, in the years 1766, 1767 and 1768. London: Hakluyt Society, 1948. 8vo. Orig. cloth. (lii,292pp.). With fold. frontisp., 5 plates, and 4 maps of which 1 fold. (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser. Vol.98). Uncut. $100
291 ROGERS, D. A History of Kew. Kilmore (Vic): Lowden, 1973. 8vo. Orig. cloth. In slightly chipped & shelf-soiled illust. dustjacket. (xvi, 256pp.). With frontisp., title-page illust., 32 full-page plates, and endpaper maps. $75
292 ROSS, James Clark (Capt. Sir). A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the years 1839-43. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1847. 8vo. Orig. blue/grey ribbed cloth with gilt vignette on front covers. Rebacked. With 8 full-page tinted lithographs, 8 mostly folded maps, numerous illust. vignettes, and publishers’ adverts
33 at end of Vol. 2. Occasional foxing, otherwise a fine, complete, and uncut copy of the 1st Edition. Spence 993; Ferguson 4636. $3,000
293 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, the ASTRONOMER - POET OF PERSIA. Rendered into English Verse. First, Second, and Third Editions (3 vols). London: Bernard Quaritch, 1859, 1868, & 1872. Sm. 4to. The First Edition represented here in faithful replica, in its orig. printed wrappers as issued; the Second Edition bound in full calf with gilt crest on upper cover; the Third Edition in contemp. full green morocco with gilt title on front cover. The three volumes preserved in a specially crafted full calf solander case with gilt title to spine. Fine and extremely scarce. Collation: The 1st Edition, comprising (xiv, 22pp.). Fitzgerald had 250 copies only of his translation printed, keeping 40 for himself, and arranging for Quaritch to stock the balance. How many Quaritch actually sold at the published price of a shilling we do not know, but by July 1861 copies were being offered from the penny-box outside Quaritch’s old Castle Street premises. The 2nd Edition (xviii, 30pp.) had numerous substantive revisions with the work expanded from 75 to 110 quatrains, and notes added at the end (pp. 25-30). For the enlarged 2nd Edition of 1868 Fitzgerald again paid for the printing as he had done for the 1st Edition. Published in an edition of 500 copies only, it has become as scarce as the First. The 3rd Edition (xxiv, 36pp.) has each page printed within a two-line decorative border, and published at 7 shillings and sixpence per copy. The first appearance of Fitzgerald’s third version of the Rubaiyat, heavily revised. $7,500
294 RUMSEY, H.J. (Compl. by). The Pioneers of Sydney Cove. ... Sydney: Sunnybrook Press, 1937. 4to. Orig. cloth (slightly soiled). Gilt. (xxviii, 122pp.). With decorations by J. Emery and vignettes by Elva Jones. Edition lim. to 150 numbered copies, signed “Herbert J. Rumsey” and “Ernest H. Shea”, the printer. Some light foxing to endpapers, otherwise fine. $250
295 RUSDEN, G.W. History of Australia. 3 vols. London: Chapman & Hall, 1883. Royal. 8vo. Orig. cloth (recased). With col. fold. map in Vol. I. Nice set of the 1st ed. (Ferguson 15219). Early rubber stamp on prelims; slightly foxed. $250
296 RUSSELL, L.E. Let’s Go Fly Fishing. With a Foreword by Crosbie Morrison. Melbourne: Georgian House, (1950). 12mo. Orig. cloth. (x, 62pp.). With text-illusts. Title-page printed in blue/black ink. $45
297 RUSSELL, W.B. The Second Fourteenth Battalion: A History of an Australian Infantry Battalion in the Second World War. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, (1949). 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth (rubbed). Spine gilt. (xx, 336pp.). With portrait, numerous illusts., plates, maps, and illust. endpapers. ADDED: A large fold. map tipped-in at end. NOTE: This Battalion, which was to serve in the Middle East, New Guinea, and Borneo, was born of the great tradition created by the 14th Battalion in the First World War; five years in existence as a unit of the Second A.I.F. With Honours and Awards, and Roll of Honour. $250
298 RUTTLEDGE, Hugh. Everest 1933. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth (slightly bumped). Spine gilt. (xvi, 390pp.). With frontispiece & protective tissue-guard, 2 double- page b/w plates, 56 full-page b/w plates, 3 fold. col. maps, 1 full-page b/w map, and 3 text-diagrams. 1st ed. Edges and endpapers foxed, otherwise fine. $110
299 RYAN, R.J. The Third Fleet Convicts. An alphabetical listing of names, giving place and date of conviction, length of sentence and ship of transportation. (Sydney): Horwitz Grahame, (1983). 8vo. Orig. illust. boards. (xiv, 126pp.). With 6 full-page b/w illusts. $45
300 SALMOND, A. Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europeans, 1773-1815. (Auckland: Penguin Books, 1997). Sm. 34 4to. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (590pp.). With 4 full-page col. plates, num. full-page b/w plates, text-illusts., and maps of which some full-page. 1st ed. Fine. $100
301 SCOTT, Jonathan. A Translation of the Memoirs of Eradut Khan, a nobleman of Hindoston, containing interesting anecdotes of the Emperor Aulumgeer Aurungzebe, and of his successors, Shaw Aulum and Jehaundar Shaw; In which are displayed the causes of the very precipitate decline of the Mogul Empire in India. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1786. Sm. 4to. Orig. hf. calf over rubbed marbled paper boards (spine aged & rubbed but sound). (xii, 96pp.). Contemp. inscription on title-page, otherwise a fine copy with armorial bookplate inside front cover. 1st ed. NOTE: The author was Captain in the service of the Honourable East- India Company, and private Persian translator to Warren Hastings, Esq., late Gov.-Gen. of Bengal. $850
302 SCRIATTOLI, A. Viterbo nei suoi Monumenti. Roma: Capaccini, 1915-20. Folio. Orig. illust. cloth (slightly shelf-soiled). Gilt titles. (470, 2, xiv pp.). With title-vign., full-page col. maps, and copious col. and b/w illusts. of which some are full-page. Text in Italian. Fine. $100
303 SCROPE, Wm. Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed; With a Short Account of the Natural History and Habits of the Salmon, Instructions to Sportsmen, Anecdotes, etc. ... Lond: John Murray, 1843. Roy. 8vo. Later half crimson oasis over buckram boards. Spine gilt and with raised bands. (xx, 298, 2pp.). With 13 full-page mostly tinted lithograph plates including additional illust. title-page, and 9 wood-engrvs. 1st edition. Fine uncut copy. W.&S., p.101. $550
304 SCURRY, J. The Captivity, Sufferings, and Escape, of James Scurry, who was detained a prisoner during Ten Years, in the Dominions of Hyder Ali and Tippoo Saib. Written by Himself. ... London: Henry Fisher, 1824. Sm. 8vo. Orig. full mottled calf (spine rubbed). (376pp.). With engrv. portrait. Small rubber stamp excised from verso of title-page, otherwise fine. NOTE: Hyder Ali and his son Tippoo Saib have been detested for the cruelties they practised on their prisoners of war, during their dominion in India. $350
305 SEDDON, R.J. The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, 1893-1906. With a History of the Liberal Party in New Zealand. By J. Drummond. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1907. Thick 8vo. Orig. cloth (spine faded). Gilt. (xii, 392pp.). With portrait, and num. full-page b/w plates. Uncut. Some foxing, and occasional pencil underlining. $50
306 SHACKLETON, E.H. (Editor). Aurora Australis, 1908-09. Published at the Winter Quarters of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907, during the winter months of April, May, June, July, 1908. Illustrated with lithographs and etchings by George Marston. Printed at the Sign of ‘The Penguins’ by Joyce and Wild, Latitude 77° 32’ South, Longitude 166° 12’ East Antarctica. (Faithful facsimile ... Auckland: Seto Publishing, 1988). 4to. Bound similarly to the original in packing-case boards stencilled ‘ULIENNE SOUP’ with blind-stamped leather spine strip titled ‘Aurora Australis’. The text uncut and laced at hinges, as issued. TOGETHER WITH: Descriptive illust. brochure, 4to., containing Introduction by Mary Goodwin. The two items enclosed in the orig. hand-made plywood box, suede-lined, with leather titling labels on front lid, laced as issued. This magnificent facsimile, with close attention given to reproducing accurately both the text and plates of the original, is of the first book printed in the Antarctic, of which no more than 60 copies are known to have survived, the majority of which are now institutionalised. $500
307 SHARPHAM, P. The First Wallabies and the Defection to Rugby League. Foreword by Peter FitzSimons. (Sydney): Sandstone Publishing, (2000). 4to. Orig. cloth. In illust. dustjacket. (xiv, 218pp.). With num. rare and fascinating b/w photographs, facs., and illusts. Fine. $50
35 308 SHEPHERD, R. Lost on the Titanic. London: Shepherds Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Zaehnsdorf, 2001. Large 4to. Orig. dec. cloth. (x, 62pp.) Illustrated with coloured tipped-in plates, b/w illusts., and printed endpapers. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine. NOTE: The centenary history of English master bookbinders Sangorski & Sutcliffe, being the story of the Great Omar, a jewelled binding of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam bound by S. & S. in 1911 that went down with the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. $125
309 SHERINGHAM, H. and J.C. MOORE. The Book of the Fly- Rod. Illustrated by G. Sheringham. Lond: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1931. 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xvi, 174pp.). With title-vignette, col. frontispiece, 3 full-page col. plates, 8 full-page b/w plates, and text-illusts. 1st edition. Fine. $150
310 SHERINGHAM, H.T. Fishing: Its cause, treatment, and cure. Symptoms by G.E. Studdy. (Devon): The Flyfisher’s Classic Library, 1996. Roy. 8vo. Orig. patterned cloth. Gilt. T.e.g. In its orig. protective slip-case. (xii, 136pp.). With 14 full-page plates. Lim. ed. Fine. $75
311 SHERMAN, S.C. Whaling Logbooks and Journals, 1613-1927: An Inventory of Manuscript Records in Public Collections. New York: Garland Publishing, 1986. Sm. 4to. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt. (xvi, 470pp.). With frontisp. map. 1st ed. Fine. $110
312 SHIEL, Des. Eucalyptus - Essence of Australia. The story of the Eucalyptus oil industry and the ‘eucy’ men, and their contribution to the Australian bush tradition. Melbourne: Queensberry Hill Press, (1985). Sm. thick 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xxiv, 254pp.). With numerous plates of which some are coloured, and text-illusts. Title-page with illust. green ink vignette. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, fully signed ‘D.J. Shiel’. Fine. $500
313 SHIPLEY, Wm. A True Treatise on the Art of Fly-Fishing, Trolling, etc.; as practised on the Dove, and on the principal streams of the Midland Counties; applicable to every trout and grayling river in the Empire. Ed. by E. Fitzgibbon. Lond: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1838. 8vo. Contemp. half morocco over marbled paper boards with matching endpapers. Spine extra gilt and with raised bands. T.e.g. other edges uncut. (xxxvi, 264pp.). Large paper copy with mounted frontisp., and engrv. text-illusts. Includes List of Subscribers. 1st ed. Fine. W.&S., p.194 $225
314 SIDNEY, S. The Three Colonies of Australia: New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia; Their Pastures, Copper Mines, & Gold Fields. London: Ingram, Cooke, & Co., 1852. 8vo. Orig. dec. cloth (rebacked preserving the original slightly faded spine strip). Gilt. (428pp.). With frontisp., 12 full-page illusts., and num. text-illusts. Uncut. 1st ed. Some foxing. Ex-library copy. $125
315 SIERP, A. Colonial Life in Tasmania: Fifty years of photography, 1855-1905. (Adelaide): Rigby, (1976). 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (216pp.). Profusely illust. in b/w with half-title vign., frontisp., title-vign., text-illusts., and photographic plates of which many full-page. 1st edition. $50
316 SLADEN, Douglas, B.W. (Ed. by). A Century of Australian Song. Centenary Edition. London: Walter Scott, 1888. 8vo. Original half roan over marbled boards (edges very slightly rubbed). Spine is decorated in gilt with raised bands. Top of pages edged in gilt. (xvi, 584pp.). With title-page printed in red and black inks, and marbled endpapers. Erratum slip tipped-in. Previous owner’s inscription on fly- leaf. An elegant volume in near fine condition. NOTE: ‘Poems inspired by life and scenery in Australia’. Douglas B.W. Sladen was commissioned to produce this book to mark the centenary of European settlement in Australia in 1888. $225
36 317 SMITH, William. Journal of a Voyage in the Missionary ship Duff, to the Pacific Ocean in the years 1796, 7, 8, 9, 1800, 1, 2, &c: comprehending authentic and circumstantial narratives of the disasters which attended the first effort of the ‘London Missionary Society’. Interspersed with a variety of singular incidents and adventures. With an Appendix; containing interesting circumstances in the life of Captain James Wilson, the commander of the Duff ... New York: Collins and Co., 1813. Sm. 8vo. Orig. full old calf with titling-label to spine. (iv, 288pp.). Some old worm-holing on prelims; text foxed; nonetheless a very good copy of this rare account. 1st ed. Complete. F.569; Hill 1589: The London Missionary Society was founded in 1795, intent upon missionary work in the Society, Tonga, Palau, Marquesas, and Hawaiian Islands. The ship Duff was purchased and outfitted for the first conveyance to the South Seas, and set sail under Captain James Wilson. The Duff stopped at Rio de Janeiro, where the missionaries condemned the slave trade. When they finally reached Tahiti, the company divided, some staying at Tahiti, and some going to Tonga and the Marquesas. After difficulties with the natives, most of the missionaries sailed to Australia, either to return home or to wait for a more propitious time to resume their work on the islands. Very thorough descriptions are given of Tahiti, Tonga, Australia, and New Zealand. Smith was imprisoned for debt in Australia; he escaped, and describes his privations while on the run. He was taken aboard the Royal Admiral, commanded by the same James Wilson who had formerly captained the Duff, and sailed to New Zealand and then to China, visiting Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa, and the Mariana Islands. In China, they made port at Macao, Whampoa, and Canton. $750
318 SNOWE, Joseph. The Rhine: Legends, Traditions, History, from Cologne to Mainz. 2 vols. London: F.C. Westley, 1839. 8vo. Orig. full crimson presentation oasis with elaborate gilt borders on all covers (slightly rubbed). Spines gilt and with raised bands. Inside dentelles. All edges gilt. With 2 additional illust. title-pages, 12 engrv. vignette plates (2 of which are quite oxidised), and text-illusts. Some slight foxing and an 1844 inscription on prelims, otherwise a fine complete set in a handsome contemp. prize binding. $400
319 SOM PRAKASH VERMA. Mughal Painters and their Work. A Biographical Survey and Comprehensive Catalogue. ... Delhi: O.U.P., 1994. 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xvi, 438pp.). With 51 photos most of which are full-page. Printed in double-column. 1st ed. Fine. NOTE: The first comprehensive reference on the Mughal school of painting performed during the 16th and 17th centuries. $200
320 SOMERSET, Duke of. A Treatise in which the elementary properties of the Eclipse are deduced from the properties of the Circle, and geometrically demonstrated. ... London: John Murray, 1843. Sm. 8vo. Orig. cloth with gilt title on front cover. (iv, 136pp.). With numerous text-figs. Previous owner’s name on front yellow-glazed fly-leaf, otherwise a fine crisp copy. $150
321 SPEKKE, A. The Baltic Sea in Ancient Maps. Stockholm: M. Goppers, 1961. 4to. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket (slightly chipped). (vii, 76pp.). With frontisp., 3 full-page maps, 10 fold. maps, 5 text-maps, 1 full-page illust., and 1 text-illust. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. $100
322 SPENCER, Roger. Horticultural Flora of South-Eastern Australia. Vol. I: Ferns, Conifers & their Allies. The Identification of Garden and Cultivated Plants, (Sydney: Univ. of N.S.W. Press, 1995). Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xxxviii, 358pp.). With col. plates, and numerous text-illusts. Fine. $55
323 STEIN, A. (By A. Walker). Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road. London: John Murray, (1995). Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (xiv, 394pp.). With 3 full-page maps, 1 double-page map, and 16 full-page b/w plates. First edition. Fine. $50
37 324 STEIN, Aurel (Sir). Kharosthi Inscriptions, Discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese Turkestan. Part I and II Transcribed and Edited by A.M. Boyer, E.J. Rapson, and E. Senart; Part III Transcribed and Edited by E.J. Rapson and P.S. Noble. With complete Index Verborum. New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 1997. 4to. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (xvi, 380pp. text). With 14 full-page b/w plates at end. Text in English and the Kharosthi. 1st edition thus. $75
325 STEIN, M. Aurel. Ruins of Desert Cathay. Personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and Western Most China. 2 vols. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1996. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt. With numerous illusts., colour plates, panoramas, and maps. Fine. Facsimile reprint of the orig. edition published in London in 1912. $200
326 STEVENSON, R.L. Weir of Hermiston. An Unfinished Romance. Lond: Chatto and Windus, 1896. 8vo. Orig. full navy buckram with bevelled boards. Spine gilt titled. T.e.g. other edges uncut. (viii, 290, 32pp.). Title- page printed in red/black ink. 1st edition, with adverts. at end dated March 1895. $95
327 STODDART, T.T. Angling Reminiscences. Edinburgh: The Edinburgh Printing & Publishing Co., 1837. Sm. 8vo. Orig. half crushed morocco over marbled paper boards. (x, 230pp.). With frontisp., title- vign., 3 full-page engrv. plates, and tail-piece text-illust. The four plates are slightly oxidised, otherwise an attractive complete copy of the 1st edition, handsomely bound. W.&S., p.203. $125
328 STODDART, T.T. Angling Songs. With a Memoir by A.M. Stoddart. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1889. 8vo. Orig. cloth with title to front cover and spine. (x, 324pp.). With portrait. 1st ed. Fine uncut copy. $50
329 STODDART, T.T. The Angler’s Companion to the Rivers & Lochs of Scotland. Ed. with an Introd. by Sir Herbert Maxwell. Lond: Herbert Jenkins, 1923. 8vo. Orig. green cloth with black-lettered title to front cover & spine. (xxviii, 320, 4pp.). With 4 full-page col. plates, portrait, and 16 b/w plates. Fine and complete. $50
330 STODDART, T.T. The Art of Angling as practised in Scotland. Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1835. 12mo. Orig. full dark green patterned dunn cloth (slightly discoloured). Gilt title along spine. (iv, 156pp.). With title-vignette, and num. text-illusts. Early inked name on title-page; bookplate inside front cover; otherwise complete copy of the First Edition. W.&S., p.203. $450
331 STRAHAN, R. (Ed. by). Cuckoos, Nightbirds & Kingfishers of Australia. (Sydney 1994). 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (x, 270pp.). Profusely illust. with col. photographic plates, some full-page, and with numerous small maps. 1st edition. Fine. (The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife). NOTE: Comprehensive reference describing 71 species in 17 families and five orders. $125
332 STRAHAN, R. (Ed. by). Finches, Bowerbirds & Other Passerines of Australia. (Sydney 1996). 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (x, 302pp.). Profusely illust. with col. plates, some full-page, and maps. 1st ed. Fine. (National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife). Note: Enhanced with colour photographs throughout, this book deals with 74 species of birds, each fully described, with an informal account of its natural history. $125
333 STRAHAN, R. Ed. by. The Australian Museum Complete Book of Australian Mammals. The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. (London 1984). Folio. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xxii, 530pp.). Profusely illust. with col. plates, some full-page, and with numerous text- maps. 1st ed. $95
334 STUKELEY, W. William Stukeley: Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century England. By David Boyd Hancock.
38 (Woodbridge): The Boydell Press, (2002). Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth with paper title label on front cover. (xiv, 290pp.). With portrait, and b/w illusts. 1st ed. Fine. $50
335 STUKELEY, William. An Account of Richard Cirencester, Monk of Westminster, and of his Works: with his Antient Map of Roman Brittain; and the Itinerary thereof. Read at the Antiquarian Society, March 18, 1756. London: Printed by Richard Hett, 1757. 4to. Clothbound. (96pp.). With fine folding engrv. map of ‘Brittaniae’. 1st ed. Fine and complete. $500
336 STURT, Charles. Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty’s Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6. ... (Introd. by N. Rothwell). (Adelaide): Corkwood Press, (2001). Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xvi, 504pp.). With 8 full-page b/w plates, 6 full-page col. plates, a double-page col. map, and num. text-illusts. (Reprint of Lond. 1849 edition). Edges foxed otherwise fine. $75
337 SYDNEY GAZETTE, The., And New South Wales Advertiser. Vols. I - IX in 7 vols. (March 5, 1803 - Dec. 28, 1811). A facsimile reproduction. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1963-1973. Folio. Orig. full buckram. Gilt. In illust. dustjackets. Fine copies. A complete run. (The Wm. Dixon Foundation Publication Nos. 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 13). $350
338 TANABE, K., J. CRIBB and H. WANG. (Ed. by). Studies in Silk Road Coins and Culture: Papers in honour of Professor Ikuo Hirayama on his 65th birthday. Kamakura: The Institute of Silk Road Studies, 1997. 4to. Orig. cloth. Gilt. (vi, 332pp.). With title-vign., portrait, num. full-page b/w plates, maps, and illusts. Top edge foxed otherwise fine. NOTE: This is a special issue celebrating the 65th birthday of Professor Hirayama. $80
339 TAYLOR, Ch. An Introduction to the Ancient and Modern Geometry of Conics. Being a geometrical treatise on the conic sections with a collection of problems and historical notes and prolegomena. ... Cambridge: Deighton Bell, 1881. 8vo. Orig. cloth. (lxxxviii, 384, 16pp.). With numerous text-figs., and a folding plate at end. 1st ed. Uncut. $150
340 TAYLOR, Samuel. Angling in all its Branches, reduced to a complete science: Being the result of more than forty years real practice and strict observation throughout the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. In Three Parts ... The Whole forming a Work of real Utility, ... Lond: Printed by A. Strahan, ... 1800. Sm. 8vo. Orig. half calf over rubbed marbled paper boards. (xvi, 298pp.). Early inked name of Chas. White on prelims. Slight staining at beginning of text; bound without half-title page; otherwise complete copy of the First Edition. W.&S, pp.205-6. $600
341 THOMAS, G.H. Aerial Transport. London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1920). Sm. 4to. Orig. illust. cloth (rebacked preserving the original spine strip). Gilt. (xviii, 260pp.). With portr., 64 full-page plates, and 4 folding maps at end including one depicting Sir Ross Smith’s recent flight from England to Australia. Occasional foxing, otherwise a fine complete copy. Uncommon. $300
342 THOMPSON, Paul. Australian Planting Design. (South Melbourne): Lothian Books, (2002). 4to. Orig. dec. boards. In illust. dustjacket. (xii, 212pp.). With illust. double title-page, num. full-page col. plates, double-page b/w plates, and text-illusts. First edition. Fine. $110
343 (THOMSON, Wm.). Memoirs of the late war in Asia. With a Narrative of the Imprisonment of Sufferings of our Officers and Soldiers; By An Officer of Colonel Baillie’s Detachment. 2 vols. London: Printed for the Author ... by J. Murray, 1788. 8vo. Later full buckram (recased). With a folding engrv. map. Ex-library copy. $750
39 344 TIMMS, P. Australian Studio Pottery & China Painting. Melbourne: Oxford U.P., (1986). Small 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (x, 192pp.). With illust. half-title page, col. frontisp., col. title-page illust., 13 col. plates of which 12 full-page, and numerous b/w plates of which some full-page. Fine. NOTE: Contains a comprehensive collection of biographies, making this a useful and authoritative text for scholars, craftsmen and collectors alike. $60
345 TIMMS, P. Australia’s Quarter Acre. The Story of the Ordinary Suburban Garden. (Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2006). Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (xii, 232pp.). Profusely illustrated in both colour & b/w. Fine. $40
346 TOUCHSTONE, S.F. Race Horses. History of celebrated English and French Thorough-bred Stallions and French Mares which appeared on the Turf from 1764 to 1887. Preceded by a preface from the Duke of Beaufort. Transl. from the French by C.B. Pitman. London: J.C. Nimmo, 1890. Oblong 4to. Orig. roan backed illust. buckram. Gilt. Spine gilt. Top edge gilt. (xxvi, 166pp.). With 60 full-page col. chromo-lithograph plates of horses each with a captioned descriptive tissue-guard, and 134 hand-col. vignettes. The title-page printed in red/black ink. Ed. lim. to 525 numbered copies. A nice copy of this desirable work. Scarce. $2,000
347 TOURISTS’ GUIDE TO TASMANIA. Union Line of Steamers. 2nd Edition. Hobart: Printed at ‘The Mercury’ Office, 1899. Sm. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth (crudely recased). (viii, 7-124pp.). With 32 full-page captioned photographic plates (by J.W. Beattie), and adverts. at end of text. $100
348 TRITHEMIUS. The Abbot Trithemius (1462-1516): The Renaissance of Monastic Humanism. By N.L. Brann. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1981. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt. In dustjacket (slightly chipped). (xx, 400pp.). With one full-page illust. (Studies in the History of Christian Thought Vol. XXIV). $135
349 TROLLOPE, T.A. A Summer in Western France. Ed. by Frances Trollope. 2 vols. London: Henry Colburn, 1841. 8vo. Orig. full green morocco. Extra gilt decorated on all covers. Spines uniformly gilt, and with raised bands. All edges gilt. With 2 coloured litho frontispieces, engraved title-pages each with a vignette (foxed), and 4 full-page engrv. plates (also foxed). A handsomely bound set presented to the previous owner on his leaving Eton in 1844. $500
350 TURNER, E. Ethel Turner Birthday Book. A selection of passages from the books of Ethel Turner (Mrs. H.R. Curlewis). Arranged by L.T.T. With a Foreword by Coulson Kernahan. London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1909. 12mo. Orig. qtr. cloth with gilt title to front cover. With portrait photo of the author by H. Ashby & Co. Sydney, and 7 full-page plates from different Ethel Turner books. First and only edition. Muir 7585. Includes some contemp. names entered in the designated birthday date. The text, listing an entry for each day of the year with a quote from her extensive writings, is printed within a red lined border. A particularly fine copy. NOTE: “The Birthday Book” and possibly “The Tiny House” published in 1911, are arguably Turner’s most obscure and scarcest titles, with the work here listed not seen or offered for sale at auction in Australia since records were kept from 1969 onwards. $2,000
351 TWEEDIE, M.W.F. The Snakes of Malaya. Singapore (1961). Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (viii, 144pp.). With coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous plates, and text-illusts. Bookplate on front endpaper. $45
352 VALDER, Peter. The Garden Plants of China. (Sydney): Florilegium, (1999). 4to. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (400pp.). With double- page col. plate on verso of half-title page, col. frontisp., more than 400 col. plates, many full-page, text-illusts., and a map. 1st edition. A fine copy of this beautifully produced book about ‘some of the world’s most romantic and exciting plants’. $80
40 353 VAN DIEMEN’S LAND. Copies of all Correspondence between Lieutenant-Governor Arthur and His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the Subject of the Military Operations lately carried on against the Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemen’s Land. With an Historical Introduction by A. G. L. Shaw. Hobart: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1971. Folio. Orig. cloth (flecked; corners bumped). Gilt. (x, 86pp.). With title-vign., and fold. map (with taped repairs). Lim. ed. of 500 copies. (Facsimile reprint of the House of Commons Paper 259 of 1831). Nancy Cato’s copy, signed and with her bookplate on endpaper. Some foxing. $95
354 VAN LINSCHOTEN, J.H. The Voyage of John Huyghen Van Linschoten to the East Indies, From the Old English translation of 1598. The First Book containing his Description of the East, ... 2 vols. (New Delhi): Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, (1997). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spines gilt. In illust. dustjackets. With frontispiece. $50
355 VELANKAR, H.D. A Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscripts in the Collection of The Asiatic Society of Bombay. Mumbai: The Asiatic Society of Bombay, 1998. 4to. Orig. cloth. Gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (xvi, 500pp.). With col. frontisp., 8 full-page col. plates, and printed endpapers. Text in English, Sanskrit and Prakrit. Printed in double-column. Near fine. $110
356 VERGIL, Polydore. Anglicae historiae libri vigintisex. Ab ipso autare postremum iam recogniti, adque amussim, salva tamen historiae veritate, expoliti. ... Basileac (Basle): Michael Isingrinium, 1546. Folio. Contemp. full vellum with yapp edges. Inked title to spine. (II, 618, xxxvipp.). Woodcut device (vignette) on title-page and repeated on verso of last otherwise blank leaf. Rectos of 2nd and 3rd leaves with elaborate woodcut borders & woodcut initials. Some marginalia in a contemporary early hand, otherwise a most attractive copy. Polydore Vergil (1470-1555), a native of Urbino, lived in England between 1502 and 1551 as a Courtier and Churchman. His English history covers England’s mythical beginnings to the reign of Henry VII. Dedicated to Henry VIII, it is seen as the beginning of modern English historiography, as an important piece of propaganda for the Tudor monarchy, and as an influence on Shakespeare’s history plays. WITH: The Scholar Press 1972 facsimile of the 1555 edition in Latin. Folio. Red imitation leather (slightly bruised at head of spine). Fine. Total 2 vols. $3,000
357 VERGIL, Polydore. The Anglica Historia of Polydore Vergil, A.D. 1485-1537. Edited with a Translation by Denys Hay. London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1950. Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. Gilt. (xvii, 374pp.). Text in English and Latin. $50
358 VERTOT, (Abbot). A Critical History of the Establishment of the Bretons among the Gauls, and of Their Dependence upon the Kings of France, and Dukes of Normandy. Done from the original French, ... 2 vols in one. London: W. Taylor, ... 1722. 8vo. Orig. full old calf. Spine with raised bands and black morocco titling-label. With dec. chapter headings, initials, and tail-piece vignettes. Fine and complete. $500
359 VIRGIL: Publii Virgilii Maronis. Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, Nune primum edita ad hoc Exemplar, interpretatione et notis illustrata. Opera et Studio T. Cooke. London: Jacobi Hodges, 1741. Thick 8vo. Orig. full old calf (lower spine defective). Orig. titling-label to spine. (xxvi, 27-464, 216pp.). With engrv. portr., and fold. engrv. map. Index Vocabulorum at end of text. Inscribed ‘John Longe March 1744’ on front fly-leaf, and with some contemp. marginal ms. notes. $250
360 WALTON, I. and C. COTTON. The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man’s Recreation, being A Discourse on Rivers, Fishponds, Fish, and Fishing. With notes Biographical and Explanatory, and the Lives of the Authors. Lond: Henry Washbourne, 1842. 8vo. Contemp. qtr. morocco over dunn cloth boards. Spine gilt and with contrasting morocco
41 titling-label. T.e.g. other edges uncut. (xxvi, lxxii, 396pp.). Embellished with engrv. portrait, full-page copper plates, wood-cuts, and tail-piece illusts. Fine and complete. $250
361 WALTON, Izaak and Ch. COTTON. The Complete Angler, or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. With lives of the Authors, and variorum notes, historical and practical. Edited by E. Jesse. To which are added Papers on Fishing-Tackle, Fishing Stations, etc. ... Lond: Henry G. Bohn, 1861. 8vo. Contemp. half roan (rubbed; hinges strengthened). (xviii, 498pp.). With illust. half-title page, 26 full-page engrvs., and num. text-illusts. Previous owner’s name on title-page. Complete copy. $100
362 WARD, H.G. Mexico. 2nd edition. ... With an Account of the Mining Companies, and of the Political Events in that Republic, to the present day. 2 vols. London: Henry Colburn, 1829. 8vo. Orig. full prize calf with gilt dec. borders on all four covers (slightly rubbed). Spines extra gilt and with contrasting morocco titling-labels. Inside dentelles. Marbled endpapers and matching edges. With 13 lithograph plates mostly folded incl. one which is coloured, 2 large engrv. fold. maps, and wood-cuts in Vol. 2. Fine and complete. $1,500
363 WAUGH, Evelyn. The Loved One. An Anglo-American Tragedy. (London): Chapman & Hall, (1948). 8vo. Original cloth. In soiled and slightly chipped dustjacket. (x, 144pp.).With numerous illustrations by Stuart Boyle. 1st edition. Slightly foxed. $95
364 WAUGH, Evelyn. Unconditional Surrender: The Conclusion of Men at Arms, and Officers and Gentlemen. London: Chapman & Hall, 1961. 8vo. Orig. cloth. In illust. dustjacket. (viii, 312pp.). 1st edition. Previous owner’s name on endpaper otherwise fine. $85
365 WESSELS, C. Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia 1603-1721. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1997. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. (xvi, 344pp.). With frontispiece, and full-page illusts. Facsimile reprint of the orig. 1924 edition. $40
366 WEYER, J. Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance: Johann Weyer, De praestigiis daemonum. Trans. by J. Shea. Tempe, Arizona: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1998. Thick Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt. (xcii, 796pp.). With frontisp., and several b/w illusts. Fine. NOTE: According to Sigmund Freud, De praestigiis daemonum was “one of the ten most significant books of all time”. Johann Weyer (1515-1588) challenged contemporary views, asserting that the women accused of witchcraft were in fact mentally ill. $150
367 WHITE, Patrick. Happy Valley. A Novel. London: George G. Harrap, (1939). 8vo. Orig. orange coloured cloth with blue lettered title to spine. In slightly defective, soiled dustjacket. (328pp.). First Edition, 2nd Issue of the author’s first novel, published in the same month as the first printing (February 1939). Some foxing, and the name stamp of the previous owner on prelims. Scarce. NOTE: Patrick White remains Australia’s only Nobel Laureate. $600
368 (WICK. S.). Purple Over Green. The History of the 2/2 Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1945. (Sydney 1977). 8vo. Orig. dec. cloth (edges lightly rubbed) Gilt. (x, 454pp.). With 32 full-page plates and numerous maps. Copy signed by ‘Paul A. Cullen’ (Major General of the Battalion). 1st ed. NOTE: As part of the 6th Division 2AIF, the Battalion was one of the first Australian units in action in the attack on Bardia, North Africa, January 1941. Later it fought in Greece, Crete and New Guinea. Includes a Nominal Roll, Casualties, Honours and Awards. $400
369 WIENER, Leo. Contributions Toward a History of Arabico- Gothic Culture. 4 vols. New York: The Neale Publishing Co./Innes & Sons, 1917-1921. 8vo. Orig. cloth (rubbed). Spines gilt. Uncut. Some text in Latin and Greek. 1st edition. $135
42 370 WILDE, Oscar. De Profundis. London: Methuen and Co., 1905. 8vo. Later full calf. Spine extra gilt. (152pp.). First Edition: Colonial Issue with the Methuen adverts on endpapers. Previous owner’s name on half- title page, otherwise a fine uncut copy of Wilde’s last prose work written whilst incarcerated in Reading Gaol. $650
371 WILKINS, W. Geography of New South Wales. ... Sydney: J.J. Moore and Co., 1881. 12mo. Orig. cloth (faded). (168pp.). Slight foxing. $55
372 WILLIAMSON, H.R. Gods and Mortals In Love. With pictures by Edmund Dulac. London: Country Life, (1935). 4to. Orig. cloth (slightly soiled). (84pp.). With col. frontisp., 8 full-page col. plates, and dec. chapter initials. 1st edition. Endpapers lightly browned. $100
373 WILSON, J. Memoirs of Captain James Wilson, containing An Account of his Enterprises and Sufferings in India, his conversion to Christianity, his Missionary Voyage to the South Seas, and his peaceful and triumphant death. By John Griffin. ... London: Printed for Williams and Son, n.d. (circa 1816). 8vo. Orig. paper boards as issued (spine defective). (iv, 230, 2pp.). A particularly fine uncut copy. Ferguson’s collation (F. 607) varies from our copy in so far as ours is not ‘printed for the Author’, and ours has 230 + 2pp of publisher’s adverts as opposed to his total of 228pp all up. NOTE: The reports of Cook, Wallis, and others about the inhabitants of the islands of the South Seas stirred interest among various Christian denominations in converting these natives to Christianity. The London Missionary Society was formed in 1795 to raise funds to send missionaries into the field. The ship Duff was purchased and placed under the command of the deeply religious Captain Wilson, a veteran of the battles of Bunker Hill and Long Island, who was instructed to transport the missionaries to the Polynesian Islands. This volume largely relates to the voyage to establish a mission at Tahiti in 1796-98. A settlement of twenty-five people was formed in Tahiti, but was forced to remove to Australia due to the civil wars. The work contains many valuable details regarding Tahiti, Fiji, Tonga, and the Marquesas. $500
374 WILSON, N.G. et al. Byzantine Books and Bookmen. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 1975. 4to. Orig. illust. limp boards. (xii, 110pp. text). With num. full-page b/w plates at end. (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium 1971). Text in English and German. Some light foxing. $50
375 WINDSCHUTTLE, Keith. The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. Vol. 1: Van Diemen’s Land 1803-1847. Sydney: Macleay Press, (2002). Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (vi, 472pp.). With 15 full-page plates, most in col., text-illusts., maps, and endpaper maps. 1st edition. Fine. NOTE: Windschuttle’s highly controversial account of the killing of Aborigines in Tasmania. $45
376 WINTON, R. Why the Pomegranate? A History of The Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Sydney 1988. Royal 8vo. Orig. half morocco. (xiv, 176pp.). With numerous text-illusts., and dec. endpapers. $50
377 WINTON, Tim. Breath. (Melbourne): Penguin Books, (2008). Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. (vi, 216pp.). First edition. Signed by the author on title-page. Fine. $50
378 WINTON, Tim. Dirt Music. (Sydney): Picador, (2001). 8vo. Orig. cloth. In illust. dustjacket. (viii, 466pp.). Signed by the author on title-page. 1st edition. Fine. Assoc. ephemera loosely inserted. NOTE: Dirt Music was short listed for the Booker Prize in 2002 and won the Miles Franklin Award in the same year. The first Australian edition is the true first edition. This copy is the version with untrimmed fore-edges, which was for sale only in independent book shops, making it scarcer than the version with trimmed edges that was available in the larger book chains. $150
43 379 WINTON, Tim. Shallows. Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, (1984). 8vo. Orig. cloth (extremities slightly rubbed). Spine gilt. In illust. dustjacket. (xii, 236pp.). 1st ed. Previous owner’s inscription on title-page. NOTE: Winner of the 1984 Miles Franklin Award. $50 380 WITHERS, W.B. The History of Ballarat, from the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time. Ballarat 1887. (Carlton: Queensberry Hill Press, 1980). 8vo. Orig. full green cloth. Dec. gilt spine. In illust. dustjacket. (xx, 396pp.). With large fold. (11.5 x 34 inches) coloured birds-eye view of Ballarat, 25 full-page plates, 1 fold. plan, and num. text-illusts. (Facs. repr. of Ballarat 1887 edition). Fine. $100 381 WORRELL, E. Dangerous Snakes of Australia. A handbook ... with directions for first-aid treatment of snake-bite. Sydney n.d. (circa 1953). Sm. 8vo. Orig. illust. boards (rubbed). (64pp.). With numerous illusts. $75 382 WORRELL, E. Reptiles of Australia: Crocodiles - Turtles - Tortoises - Lizards - Snakes. (Sydney 1963). Royal. 8vo. Orig. cloth (minor flecking on covers). In chipped dustjacket. (xvi, 308pp.). With 74 full-page plates of which 12 are col., and illust. endpapers. 1st ed. Author’s signed and inscribaed present. copy. $150 383 YORKE, Philip. The Royal Tribes of Wales. ... Wrexham: John Painter, 1799. 4to. Later qtr. calf over marbled paper boards. (x, 192, 4pp.). With 12 full-page engrv. portraits. A fine copy of the 1st edition, complete with half-title page, errata and advert. leaf at end. $300 384 YOUNGHUSBAND, F. Kashmir. Described by Francis Younghusband. Painted by E. Molyneux. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1996. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. (xvi, 284pp.). With col. frontispiece, and 69 captioned col. plates. Facsimile reprint of the Lond. 1909 edition. $45 385 YOUNGHUSBAND, Francis. The Heart of a Continent. A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Hunza 1884-1894. London 1904 (facs. reprint, New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1993). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt. (xviii, 332pp.). With frontispiece, 8 full-page plates, and folding map at end. $55 386 YULE, H. (Transl. and Ed. by). Cathay and the Way Thither. Being a collection of medieval Notices of China. ... Revised throughout in the light of recent discoveries by Henri Cordier. 4 vols complete. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, (1998). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjackets. With portrait, plates, and fold. map. Fine set. $250
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